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PREFATORY NOTICE. 

To render this publication more interesting tothe general reader, we have procured from various au- 
thentic sources,brief genealogical and historical or biographical notices of some of the more remarkable 
menan^ familiea in this community,into whose hands wealth has concentrated. We have endeavored 
to do equal and exact justice to the parties, and h^ve deemed that we have been rendering an espe- 
cial service to those, more particularly, who by honest and laborious industry have raised themselves 
from the obscure and humble walks of life, to great wealth and consideration. The public will be 
equally desirous to know those whose fortune* have been acquired in a more equivocal manner. If 
there be, by any possibility, any erroneous statements, we pledge ourselves to correct them in our 
next edition. Our aim has been to wound the feelings of no one, but to define the true 
position of sundry individuals who are flourishing under false colors, and to do strict justice 
10 all, and to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In a country where money, and not title, 
is the standard by which merit is appreciated, it is desirable to adjust the standard with as much 
exactitude as possible in reference to the honest means by which wealth has been acquired. 

New York, May, 1842. 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and forty-two, by Moses Y. Beach, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of 
the United States for the Southern District of New York. 



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WEALTH 



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WEALTHY CITIZENS OF NEW-YORK CITY. 



Abrams Samuel 150,000 

This oddity is of an ancient and respectable Jew 
family, and witli his brother acquired a large fortune in 
the tobacco business, being one of the oldest firms in that 
line in our city. 

AbeelJno. H. 100,000 

A very old and rich house in the iron line, and if not 
now, were once worth double the sum. 

Adams John 300.000 

As the name imports, one of our numerous New Eng- 
land " immigrations." New York being in fact as much 
the metropolis of New England and the emporium of her 
commerce and of her enterprizing, adventurous and mo- 
ney-hunting population, as it is of the " Empire State" 
and of the American Continent. Our city has been noae 
the worse, perhaps, for this influx from " down east," 
which, like the fresher, deposits always " en mouvement" 
upon their own sterile soil, and driven by ocean currents, 
(favorite element lo your Yankee race) have quite over- 
laid the original and primitive aggregations of early Dutch 
settlers of this once city of New Amsterdam. Mr. John 
Adams flourished in the dry goods line, when great 
wealth was easily and rapidly acquired thereby. 

Adee William 150 000 

Agnew Cornelius .... 100,000 

An ancient New York family of great respectability, 
and a wealthy house. 

Allen Stephen 150,000 

Of a Long Island, New England, family, we believe, 
and for a long time kept one of the best sail lofts in 
the city; a man of austere temper, but reputed of 
stern honesty, strict probity, and great good sense, judg- 
Inent and energy, which, in despite of slight opportunitips 
of education in early life, when he had " to rough it" 
witli tarpaulin, elevated him to the Mayoralty and va- 
rious other high and responsible trusts in the democratic 
party. 

Alley Saul 100,000 

Originally a chair or cabinet maker, and resided, we be- 
lieve, at Charleston, S. C.;has since become in some sort a 
cabinet-ma.keT in politics, in which some years back he 
took rather an ultra and prominent position. His fortune 
was acquired in the dry goods and importation and ship- 
ping business; being one of the numerous instances of an 
uneducated, unaided youth, among the mechanic class, 
who have, by their own indomitable energies and strong 
intellect, advanced themselves to affluence. 

Allaire James P. ... - 100,000 

Misfortune and temporary depression in the affairs of 
this enterprising citizen, whose foundry for steam machi- 
nery and other castings are familiar by the excellent work 
turned out to all parts of the country, ought not to dis- 
place him from his true position, which, doubtless, his 
good sense and tact will soon enable him to resume, and 
to be what he is nobly entitled to be, and what he once 



was, a demi-millionaire, to ■whom the mechanic classes irl 
all the upper wards along the east river could point with 
conscious pride. His sister married the rich Mr. Hag- 
gerty. The Allaires, it would seem, are French, by the 
name. 

Alstyne John 100,000 

Ames Barret 100,000 

Amos Estate of Mr. . - - - 200,000 

Amory Jonathan .... 100,000 

After a fiery ordeal,worse than that which his pipe-lay- 
ing political associates are yet to pass through, this iner-' 
chant comes out unscathed from the savage assault, as it 
appeared to be, made upon his integrity by those who, 
when he was up in the world, flourishing as " aide de 
camp" of his Seiene Highness, our small potatoe Gover- 
nor Seward, were in ecstacies to have a smiling nod from 
him, to ruralize with him at their country villa, to press 
him 10 a se.at in their carriage, or a spare queue in the 
" salon de billiards." Verbum sap. Mr. Amory's Ap- 
pleton, cousins at Boston, will no doubt rejoice to have it 
in their power to aid in reinstating, to the extent of their 
power, this persecuted man to his former wealth. 

Anderson Henry J. - . - - 100,000 

Tlie respected Professor of Mathematics in Columbia 
College, a self-made man, who, while yet a boy, gave 
such promise of scientific precocity, that the chair of 
mathematics in the venerable institution named, and 
which was his own ahna mater, fell to him as by inheri- 
tance, before he had scarce attained manhood. His fa- 
ther, Elbert, was a fashionable and most capital cabinet- 
maker, and afterwards, as an army contr.actor in the war, 
exhibited proof of great energy and scope of mind, and 
these he bequeathed to his children as a richer legacy 
than the gold he had accumulated. Elbert Anderson was 
truly an honor to the mechanic class. One of his sons 
married into the ancient family of EUeiy of Rhode Island, 
another, who was in one of the legations abroad, married 
Miss Phelps, daughter of Thaddeus P. 

Andariese Barnet .... 100,000 

Avery excellent tailor and a very amiable man was 
Mr. Andariese. This worthy citizen was a pattern of 
propriety and industry for many a purse-proud aristo- 
crat of the new-made gentry that turned their nose up 
at him and his calling. 

Anderson Abel 200,000 

Truly able, both in gold and in law knowledge. Hia 
father was an admirable shoemaker, and we believe hon- 
est man, who deserved all that wax and leallier made for 
him. 

AnthonJohn 150,000 

His father was a highly respectable and learned physi- 
cian, native of Germany, or son of a German. The sons 
of i)r. Anthon have nearly all distinguished themselves 
by their great ability. John, as a lawyer; Henry, as a 
divine, and Charles, the truly illiistrinus professor of an- 
cient languages in Columbia Collage in this city. John 
added a large aiuouut to his fortune by his marriage with 



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♦heail tKe management of the late New York and Erie 
Rail Road, under which he was crushed in his political 
aspirations, if he had any, but saved his bacon, we hope. 
It was a losing day when he got into the company of scurvy 
politicians— and to be the bosom friend of William H. 
Seward . 

Boyd James 100,000 

A better sample of a rigidly honest and scrupulously 
exact mercantile man, and unobtrusive gentleman, no 
where exists, and we sincerely tiust no commercial blast 
may ever seriously hann him in his honorable career. 

Bradhurst J. M. 150,000 

Bradhurst Samuel - <. . . 100,000 
The Bradlnirsts are an old New York family, who 
have acquired their fortune in the drug liae, to which 
" Alderman Sam" has appended a very comfoitable bo- 
nus through his m irriage with a daughter of the rich Tho- 
mas Pearsall, deceased. 

Brandreth Benj'n 150,000 

The celebreted vender of " Brandreth's Pills," whose 
Virtues are said to consist in aloes, &c., compounded with 
the greatest care and selected of the finest qualities. Em- 
piric then though he be, he is not of the murderous tribe. 

Brevoort H. Jr. 300,000 

A worthy man and good citizen, but that he would ap- 
pear to be what he is not and strive to cast behind him the 
foreshadowing of by gone events. To his kind hearted 
and venerable mother, whose weather-beaten features 
bore the brunt and pitiless peltings of many a piercing 
wintry northeaster of sleet and rain, as she sat vend- 
ing her vegetables, and carrots and York salad, undpr 
the unsheltered eaves of the market-hoUse in the 
Bowery, is Henry indebted for the brilliant fortune and 
more brilliant education he received, all literally the fruits 
of her hard earnings. Furtlier at present we know no- 
thing of Henry's lineage. He himself is distinctly and po- 
sitively of the order of " literateurs," though not "dis- 
tmgue " He is of the "novushoiiio," hiving, witli his wife, 
a rich Southern widow, a very keen relish for all sorts of 
fashionable display, and like others of our would be no- 
billity a most abhorrent repugnance to any communica- 
tion witli whatsuch are pleased to call the "profanun val- 
gus," and " basse classe," or "canaille." 

Bronson Arthur 100,000 

The Bronsons date from the father. Doctor B., of Con- 
necticut, the great financier, a maivellous quality in one 
of the faculty. 

Bronson Silas 250,000 

Brooks James - . ^ . . 100,000 

Brooks Thomas 100,000 

Brooks Sydney 100,000 

Son of that John Jacob Astor of Boston Peter C. 
Brooks, brother of the late Governor B. 

Brown Geo. W. (See Oscar Coles.) - 100,000 

Brown James - - . - . 300,000 
English firm of great repute. 

Brown Silas 100,000 

Brown Stewart - - - - . 300,000 

Bruce George 100,000 

A worthy mechanic, who, in company with his bro- 
ther, from a printer, some years ago, became a type 
founder. By great industry and care, the possession of 
much natural shiewdness,and judicious operations in real 
estate, he has rendered himself wealthy, and is now mas- 
ter of a handsome fortune. 
Bruce J. M. 100,000 

Bruen Matthias . • . . . 700,000 
When the great China merchant, Thos. H. Smith, of 
this city, failed, Bruen, through his son, Geo. W. B., who 
had married to Smith's daughter, became possessed of all 
Smith's ships, teas, &c., as Smith's bondsman. Govern- 
ment unwisely relinquished the greater part of what was 
due to the revenues, say $600,000, and this has made 
through rise of Smith's assets, houses, &c. a vast proper- 
ty for the Bruens, a NewJereeyfamUy, and originally 



dry goods merchants. Geo. W. lived in Ital? and wa* 
in the Leghorn line. 

Bryson David 100,00© 

An honest upright Irishman, one of the nabobs of the 
tanners and curriers of the "Swamp," with the Blood- 
goods, &c. Hasbeen an Alderman. 

Buchanan Miss 150,000 

Daughter of Thomas Buchanan, (deceased.) 

Buckley Thomas 100,000 

English Quaker, merchant, who made a good adven- 
ture, the first impulse to his fortune, when he married a 
daughter of the licH John Lawrence, deceased. 

Buckley Henry - - • . . 100,000 

Son of Thos. (vide); and inherited a large estate by mar- 
riage with the daughter of Townsend Macoun, deceased, 
late Mayor of Troy. 

Buloid Robert 150,000 

A most worthy, upright merchant, and made his fortune 
by a retail grocery establishment in Broadway, celebrated 
for its choice assortments of rarest delicacies that cart 
pamper the a-ppetite of epicures, in delicious wines, li- 
queurs and confitures. 

Bunker Wm. J. 100,000 

Of the Nantucket Bunkers, of whom is the famous 
Commodore or "Admiral" Elihu S. Bunker, the first that 
drove a steamer on the wave of the ocean, having been 
the man who first navigated Long Island Sound in a 
steamboat — many, many years since. 

Buri.ham (Estate of) Michael - - 200,000 

A good man, and one that every printer should point to 
the memory of with a just pride — for it was as much 
through his exactitude as the financier and practical head 
and proprietor in the Evening Post as to William Cole- 
man's master talent with the plume, that such wealth ac- 
crued to both out of that ancient and able political jour- 
nal. Burnham was a man, too, of good instruction and 
pleasing mariners — and has left a proud name for his 
family. 

Burke Mrs. (widow of M. R.) - - 150,000 

Butler Benjamin F. - - - 300,000 

With native powers of mind, and most unpretending de- 
portment in the profession which he adorns, and respected 
every where for his sincere piety and pure life, Mr. Van 
Buren saw in him one whose sterling name would bring 
much capital to the democratic ranks. An early alliance 
of friendship, and the yielding temper of Mr. Butler, met 
with their full re wards in the very lucrative post to which 
his friend Mr. Van Buren finally assigned him as U. S< 
District Attorney for New York City. No one envies 
such a man's wealth, " Old Poins" and his " Report" tO' 
the contrary notwithstanding. 



Campbell Jno. - - - - 200,000 

Mr. Campbell, like his father, the late deceased and 
mui-h respecttd pruprieior of a la-ge paper esiablishraeat, 
made ihe greater pan of his fjriim" in that line, and has 
besides acquired much by inheritance. Tht-y are Scotch. 

Campbell Geo. W. .... 100,000 

Brother of John. 
Carman Rich'd r, - - . - 200,000 

A respectable New England name — carpenter by pro- 
fession, and by tills gained his wealth ; he himself wisely 
building his own houses for fools to buy or live in, the old 
adage being in this case reversed. 

Carroll Isaac 150,000 

Carow Isaac - 200,000 

One of our most reputable New York merchants. 

Cary Henry 300,000 

Respectable, worthy merchants, he and his brother 
— and trouble no one by any haughty display of theii 
wealth— being gentlemen throughout, in mode and is 
manner. 



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Games Francis (Estate of his daughters) 200,000 

A gentleman, every inch of him — and but few such 
specimens of a highly educated merchant. Resided a 
)ong while in Paris, where he was held in great consider- 
ation both among his countrymen and the elite of French 
society, for his fine taste, classical acquirements, polished 
manners, and ready wit. He is yankee born, of great re- 
spectability, and after many ups and downs of life and lo- 
cating himself with his accomplished second wife at New 
York, his two beautiful daughters, just grown and by a 
former wife, have come into the above inheritance through 
death of a maternal great uncle. 

Catlin Geo. (Estate of his father Lynde C.) 100,000 
Time was, when in the healthy condition of banking 
institutions, to be a cashier of a bank like that venerable 
institution of which Lynde was the master spirit, was 
quite equivalent in consideration to a baronial title. 
Then, too exaggerated an importance was given in this 
money-making land to all who had the fingering of rag 
currency, while mere intellectual qualifications were in 
that '• bank-note age" of Halleck, depreciated to below 
zero. Now the poverty and general depression of the 
times has drawn forth genius from its hiding-places and 
garrets, and given it a passable distinction, while every 
name almost that flourishes on the illuminated dovices of 
a bank bill is looked at with scrutinizing suspicion. So 
wags the world as the equilibrium of those influences 
that govern society changes upon its axis. Of all these 
New England Catlins, George, the Indian Traveller and 
Painter, is indubitably the most distingue. 

Cavanna Augustus . - - - 100,000 
The only example, probably, of a hair dresser, and he 
an Italian, who, after steady application for many long 
years, has shaved his customers to the tune of some thirty 
thousand dollars, and invested it successfully in real 
estate so as to treble that sum. He has not lived in the 
atmosphere of W all Street for nothing. 

CebraJohnY. 100,000 

The ei-alderman of the first ward, and an old and esti- 
mable citizen of New York, and though in years not ad- 
vanced, may be deemed, from his useful public services, 
apart from his standing as a merchant, one of l^e fatheis 
of the city. 

Center Robert 200,000 

Long a distinguished shipping merchant, of a numerous 
New York family of great respectability. 

Chabertl.X. - - - - - 100,00 
The French " Fire Eater," apothecary, &c., who by 
some "mandragora or other potent drug," burnt a hole in 
the heart of the rich old dowager, Mrs. Rapalye, of the 
ancient Dutch noblesse of Gotham— but the consuming 
passion removed the widow too soon for him from this 
earthly scene. The rent roll falling due, however, simul- 
taneously with the arrival of the undertaker, yielded to 
the "devourer of moulten metal" only a modicum of the 
tons of silver and gold wliich he had hoped to have sub- 
jected to the fiery process of his crucibles. The black art 
of alchemy did not this time furnish him with the pliilo- 
lopher's stone or " elixir vitse," and with the revulsion of 
the widow's large estate to its legitimate heirs, the sala- 
mander returned to his vocation of swallowing the coals 
of fire that her premature death had heaped upon his 
head. 

Chauncey Henry .... 150,000 

Cheeseman Dr. 100,000 

His father, an eminent quaker ship builder, gave the 
Dr. a good education, and by dint of Quaker iiiflu«nce in 
the government of the New York Hospital, got him 
there, and then through the same and a dasliing 
horse and gig, into a rich quaker practice, for which 
the Doctor's personal elegance and bold ability as 
a cutter (surgeon) did much. If his celebrated uncle, 
Capt. Cheesman,who died so nobly under Montgomery at 
X^uebec, waa, as his comrades said; one of the finest look- 
ing men of his time, and took as much pains, as is 
is recorded, to make his toilette and beautify his person on 
the morning of that fatal day, as the Doctor does when 
visiting the saloons of the quaker noblesse, (who are rea- 
dy to pay him $2&yer visit) he must have been a secoud 



Beau Brummel. If the patronage of the quaker order of 

christians first brought note and wealth to the Doctor, his 
golden wings soon became fully fledged and strengthened, 
for he now doffed the shad bellied olive coat so velvety 
and neat, and the yellow breeches and white tops so po- 
lished, that had all in the matter of costume done him 
such faithful and essential service, and launched fortli in 
to the gay world of frolick, fun and dance, of balls and 
banquets, and tableaux vivants. From being an exquisite 
of the first water in tlie quaker circle, he is now aspiring 
apparently to figure as the Henry Pelham of our new 
made nobility of the ultra fashionable society in the piu"- 
lieus of upper Broadway. Ejection from communion 
with the quaker church, to which his wife, the daughter 
herself of a quaker preacher, was also subjected, widen- 
ed the breach, and the Doctor is now virtually " hors de 
combat" for tlie little of the pure broad brim that will hiu^t 
him. 

Chesebrough R. 200,000 

A highly respectable and wortliy merchant, who ac- 
quired his property in the dry goods line. 

Chesebrough Mrs. (vpidowof Andronicus) 500,000 

Chesterman James ----- 200,000 
A worthy man and most capital tailor he was till an 
overgrown fortune honestly acquired in that unpretend- 
ing vocation, obliged him to seek repose in a "hacienda" 
or "chateau," "a I'Anglois" in the environs of this impe- 
rial city. 

Childs Samuel R. (Estate of his wife) - 100,000 
A clever, shrewd New England physician, and dipped 
too deep in politics and real estate, but has been saved 
from shipwreck by marriage with the fashionable milliner 
Mrs. Thompson, with whom he is now on a tour through 
Europe. 

Clapp John 100,000 

Clark Aaron - - - 100,000 

Of this state — long the valuable clerk of tlie legislative 
Assembly through all changes and revolutions of politics, 
which, however, one day at last landed him by one sud- 
den and violent gyration of the wheel of fortune into a 
lottery office, where after multifarious dealing with the 
Sybelline leaves of fate, and the blanks and prizes of 
life's cheqner board, another equally sudden wrench of 
the wheel placed him in the marble house or capitol of 
tlie city, firmly seated in diplomatic black silk breeches 
and formidable wig, in the "fauteuil" of the mayoral- 
ty — dispensing justice and law, and cartmen's licenses 
and passengers permits, instead of lottery tickets and un- 
ciurent money. 

"Viva la Bagatella! 
Leather and Prunella!" 

But whatever "gyrations" Aaron may have made, and 
to whatever changing points of the compass the vane of 
his friendship or hostility has turned, we rank lum a 
notable example of the facility with which persevering 
active, sleepless industry and ambition, with native bom 
shrewdness of mind, and pleasant social manners may, 
like the upheaving volcano, work their way to the sur- 
face of notoriety, through every superincumbent stratum 
of obstruction and adversity. 

Clark Edwin 100,000 

Clark Richard S. 100,000 

Clark Mrs. (widow of Benj'n) - - 100,000 
Mr.' Clark, from "downcast," was famed as the 
Quaker lawyer, and friend of Daniel Webster; and a 
most worthy man and excellent jurist it is said he was. 

Clason Augustus W. - - - - 100,000 
Isaac Clason, first in the honorable vocation of a school 
master of a finished New England collegiate education, 
became one of the most prominent and enterprising ship- 
ping merchants of New York, and acquired and left a 
large estate. The lady of tlie present Postmaster, Colo- 
nel Jno. L. Graham is one of the daughters of Isaac Cla- 
son. 

Clufiton Mrs. H. (widow of Geo.) - 100,000 
Mrs. Hannah Clinton, daughter of Walt«r Franklip, 



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Esq.. an eminent Quaker merchant of tliis city, from L. 
Island. Her husband was nephew to Vice President Geo. 
Clinton, and brotlier of the great Governor, Dewitt Clin- 
ton— "Satis est" for Clinton, a household name— but 
the rich Franklin brothers, merchants of New York, de- 
serve a memento for the many noble ways in which they 
through intercession with the Tory authority and Hes- 
sian troops, were enabled generously to dispense their 
wealth to their poor, miserable, sutfering countrymen, 
the American prisoners confined in the Sugar House, 
Provo, &c. during the American Revolution. Mrs. Han- 
nah C. is a sister also of Gov. Dewitt Clinton's first wife, 
bv whom alone Gov. D. C. had issue. 
Clinton Charles A. (Estate of his wife) 100,000 

This oldest son of the ever to be lamented and never 
to be forgotten Governor Dewitt Clinton, every way worr 
thy of that illustrious man, is happily placed beyond the 
reach of the pecuniary distress which that father he- 
roically succumbed to for the sake of enriching ungrateful 
millions with the benefits of those magnificent works of 
internal improvement which immortalize his name The 
estate of Mr. Charles A. Clinton comes through his mar- 
riage with a grand-daughter of Jno. Hone. 
Cobb Oliver 100,000 

A most excellent citizen and practical haj-d working 
man, beloved by all his brother merchants for his amiable 
disposition and plain republican manners and sterling 
virtues. Mr. Cobb has been long deemed one of the most 
respectable inhabitants of the first ward, where, though 
of whig politics, he has fulfilled the important trusts coa- 
fided to him with equal satisfacti;on to all parties. 
Coddington Jonathan I. - - - - 100,000 

A merchant, arid late the worthy Postmaster, a gen- 
tleman every inch of him— through life, and from the 
first jump of his parentage on this continent, two centu- 
ries since, in the person of the famous Wm. Coddington, 
Esq., of England, first of Boston, then the foimder and 
first Governor of Rhode Island, (1638. ) He was the first 
merchant of New England, built the first brick house 
in Boston, and at his liouse at Newport was held the 
first auaker meeting. Jonathan is a lineal descendant of 
Gov. C, and was long a distmguished merchant of our 
city, and like his great progenitor, an unswerving demo- 
crat. 
Coe William S. - - - " ■ 100,00 

Of an old and respectable English stock, that were 
among the eaily patentees of Newtown and Jamaica, L. 
J., about two centuries past. For many years William 
S. Coe has been one of tUe hard working and most promi- 
nent and effici. nt gentlemen of the democraiic party, and 
at last has reaped a comfortable indemnity for his ser»ices 
out of the varioua high trusM he has held, Surveyor, &c. 
Coit Henry ... - 100,000 

Of New England, and by a steady, faithful attention 
.to a Sdfe mercantile busmess, has happily escaped the 
tornados that have overwhelmed the large operators, and 
,come3 out unscathed with a fortune of which every dol- 
lar counts two on the rag-standard eatimate of tormer 
years of bloated paper bubbles. 
Coit Henry A. .... 100,000 

After roaming far and wide in commercial adventures, 
and passing through all the vicissitudes of clime and for- 
tune, this much eMtemed and popul ar merchant finds him- 
self at last yet iu the Dioom o(maQhood,and wiiti irrepres- 
sible energy of mind filed in hi« native soil, and blessed 
here on his return with the luckiest, though the latest 
speculation he has made— to wit, a charming yankee 
wife and rich heiress — tUe harrassmg cares of the comp- 
ioir being ill menu verted imo a ''far aolce nienie." He is 
the son of L>5>i Coit, long known as one of our most re- 
spectable merchants of an old New England family in 
the land of steady habits. 

Coles Oscar - . . , 200,000 

Of the Long Island branch of Coles, and inherits a large 
estate tram his father, and another in expectancy through 
his'beauiiful wife, the daughter of a worthy citizen, Mr. 
George Brown, which latter, when mercantile leferses 
ruined him, had the noble energy of chaLracter to apply 
himself to the vocation of a hotel keeper, which, though 
perhaps less exalted, in common piulunee, than the rantt 



to which he was educated, proved infinitely more luefa- 
tive, and not only extricated him from the embarrassmf nU 
ihat oppressed him, but yielded him splendid opulence, 
la this coutitry, " Dieu merci !" such independence of 
spirit receives the approvirjg reward of every virtuous 
mind whose good opinion is worth possessing, however 
swindling bankrupts, that have carried havoe in their 
pathway, may for a time brave publis stniiment witti 
their braa'cD effrontery, and dash jehu-like through the 
streets with their lil-goitf n wealth, trampling under their 
horses' hoofs those even their belters, whom thar vUla- 
noits frauds have reduced to squalid beggary. 

Coles Benj. U. (Estate ol) - - - 150,00Q 
Tne Coles of Long Island and of New York, and pro- 
bably those of Virginia are descendants of Mr. Robert 
Coles and others of that name, (doubtless all brothers,) 
who settled at Boston, Lynn, &c. about two centuries 
suice, and are among the most ancient and respectable of 
American names. The ancient earldom of Enniskillen 
in Ireland belongs to the family of Coles, but their Irish 
descendants who came over, brpught, we opine, precious 
little of tlie moveables thereof with them. 



Coles Wm. J. 



100,000 



Coleman (widow of William) - - 100,000 
This estate was brav* ly acquired by her deceased hus- 
band, the celebrated Wm Coleman, former eaiior of ihe 
Eveni;ig Post. Through the most perilous storms of party 
strife, it must be conceded that this admirable man, even 
at the hazard of hfe and to the ultimate destiuction of 
that life, gallantly maintained the old and impracticable 
docirmes of high-toned federalism in which he had been 
nurtured— but which, when war's alarms" brought us 
into collision with a foreign foe, he never pushed to ihat 
point of black-cockade ultraism which made him forget a* 
some othtr*of hi* party unfortunaieiy did, the obligations 
of patriotism and devotion to his coimtr/. 

Colgate William 200,00<> 

A rich tallow chandler. 

Collins E.K: ..... 200,00p 
One of our most distinguished shipping merchants and 
owners of packet lines. A sou of New England, and de- 
Bcended from a family that occupy an iiluatrioua page la 
the annals of thoje heroic men who resolutely resisted 
puritan persecution. 

Conch William ... - - 200,000 

Conger Abrm. B. - . - 200,000 

Conklin Jonas 100,000 

From Sufifolk county, and a merchant. 

Conover Stephen - - . . 100,000 
In ihe war he was at bis post, ready to defend our city 
from foreign invasion, and on the return of peace reeimied 
his mercantile pursuits as a hardware merchant, »nd by a 
close and prudential attention thereto has met with the 
reward he so eminently deserved. He is a most worthy 
ana unpretending citizen, and of an old New York Knicki 
erbocker family. 

Contoit John H. . - - - r 250,000 
Ice cream of the purest quality for near half a century 
may have melted away by the ton in the mouths of hun- 
dreds of generations who have frequented his well knowa 
fashionable garden. But Contoit's father, a busy old 
Frenchman, knew, it seems, how to solidify that perisha- 
ble luxury into heaps of massive and endurmg gold, that 
will enrich all his posterity. 

Corlies Joseph W. .... 250^6m 

A worthy, intelligent, honest, industrious, enterprising 
quaker merchant, who acquired his fortune in the auc- 
foiieer business. The name is probably Huguenot. 
Corlies Benj'n ... - - 200,000 

Cornell Robt. C. . • - - 150,000 

Of the ancient Cornell family, (originally Comhill or 
Cornwall,) of Cornwall Hall, Combury, L. Island. Their 
progenitor escaped from the horrid massacre at Throg'a 
Neck, 1643, in which the immortal Anne Hutchinson, the 
liead of the colony, and most of the others perished. 



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Cornell Whitehead J, resides at Brooklyn 100,000 

Cornell Peter C, resides at Brooklyn 100,000 

Corse Israel 250,000 

.Q,uaker, leather merchant, deceased, descendant, how- 
ever, of a man of mucli military note. Colonel Israel 
Corse, of the American revolution — native, we believe, of 
Long Island. 

Corson .... 



times. His son Willi iin married a Livingston, and by tltisf 
and that liourly source of accumulating wealth, tlie Ful- 
ton steuni ferry boats established by hiiu — they have be- 
come extrtmely ricli. 

Culling aixs. (widow of William) - - 200,000 



D 



200,000 

200,000 

250,000 
deceased, of a respectable 



Coursen Abrm. - 

Coster John G. - 

And his brother, Henry A 
family in Amsterdam, and began liere as merchants 
soon after the revolution, and by honest industry amassed 
a great fortune. Wliile Napoleon held Holland, they, 
through confidential correspondence were enabled to 
know how far to push tJie trade thither, and tlms in re 
turn importations of Gil foimd so rich a liaivest that 
their wealth rapidly accumulated from that hour. They 
were gentlemen born, and of irreproachable integrity. — 
The three millions fortune the two brotliers amassed id 
neirly all melted away before it has iiarcly got 
into the hands of their children. Dr. Hosack, deceased, 
made a deep gouge into that of Henry's widow, but where 
isit^ 
Cottinet Francis .... 100,000 

Now one of the oldest and always has been one of the 
most respectable and prominent of our Froncli importers 
of silks, &c. He married the accomplished daughter of 
General Edward Laight, bein^ one of the few instances 
of the allianc.e of respectable French and American fami- 
lies. 
Cotheal David 100,000 

CozzensW B. - - ? - 100,000 

One of the most ancient and honored names in the 
early armals of New York, whenitj became an English 
province. 

Cram Jacob - - - - - 250,000 
It is well this worthy citizen had accumulated his large 
fortune by (he worm of the distilleiy before Tom Marshall, 
that maw-worm from Kentucky carae on the scene to get 
up by his spirit-stirring and imspiring eloquence a tee- 
totaling crusade against the consumers of every denomina- 
tion of ardent liquor. For it is ten to one in another 20 
ye ars it will he held as a capital crime to taste even a 
drop of Chateau Margot wine. That promising young 
comedian, Mason, the nephew of the immortal Kemble, 
made a good day's work o it when his fine personation of 
master Clifford obtained for him the hand of the fair daugh- 
ter of this almost deiui-millionaire. 

Crane Jacob 200 000 

Crosby Wm. B. 1.000,000 

As the great nephew of the rich Col. Henry Rutgers, 
of tlie ancient Rubers family of thisciiy, he inherited an 
immense estate. His wife, through her inoth(-r, U grand 
daughter of Gen. Wm. Floyd, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence. 

Cruger Mrs. Douglas .... 400,000 
Her father was Geo. Douglass, a Sco'ch merchant, who 
hoarded closely. His vinne cellar was more extensive 
than his library. When Georce used to see p-ople specu- 
lating and idle, it distressed him. He would tay "Peo 
pie get too many t'fiees in their heads. Wby don't they 
work?" What a blessing he is not alive in this moon- 
shine age of dreamy schemings. 

TheCrugers were of Bristol, Eng , of which the one 
that first came out here, "Old Harry," father-in law 
of the present judge Thos. Oakley, of tlie Superior Court, 
had been Mayor. 

CryderJohn 100,000 

Cushman Don Alonzo . - - - 100,000 

Cutting F. R. - 100.000 

The Rev. Mr. Cutting, his grandfather, was the princi- 
pal of a famous grammar school at Hempstead hefor the 
Acierican revolution, and from him the illustrious Dr. Sa- 
muel L. Mitcljill received his first lessons, as did a^so ma- 
ny of the sons of the gentlemen of Long Island of tliose 



100,000 
150,000 

200,000 



Dart Russell .... 
Dash John B. . - . . 

Uesptctai'le hardware merchant. 
Dater Philip .... 

Uutili, of New Jersey, and probably soa or nephew of 
Abraham D., an iron master, wiio owned a considerable 
forge on the Rainapo, in Rockland county, N. Y. 

Davis Chas. A. 100,000 

Originally, on his father's side, it is said, of aPortuguesa 
faniily, through a Portuguese lady saved miraculously 
friiin the earthquake of Lisbon to become the betrothed 
wife of the grandfather of Charles A., who was then 
British Coii'-ul at th;it capital. So far for Major Jack 
Dotoninir J^'o. 2, who did not altogether play fair to Zeba 
Smith, the real Simtm Pure Jack, whoje plumes he bor- ' 
rowed and made to fit with such coimterfeit resemblance 
to those of the original owner. 

Dawson William .... 100,000 

Is an English gentleman in the broker line and if not 
worth this sum himself, will inherit it through his wife, 
the daughter of Peter A. Jay. 

De Forest Alfred . - - - . 150,000 
De Forest Benjamin .... 350,000 
A most successful shipping merchant in the West In- 
dia trade. 

De Forest William W, . - - - 150,000 

Dekay George 250,000 

Of an ancient New York family, and while yet a youth 
was in high command as a commodore in the naval ser- 
vice of Buenos Ayies, where he gained Inurels and libe- 
ral pay and prize money by his courage and nautical skill. 
On his return home be married the only daughter and 
child of the lamented Dr. Drake, the poet. The wife of 
Dr. Drake was the daughter of Mr. Eckford. Ano. 
ther daughter of Mr. E. married Dr. James E. Dekay, 
brother of the commodore. 

Dennison Lyman ..... 100,OOQ 

Delafield Dr. Edward . - - 100,000 
H.is .-e-estah ished, hy patient industry and slef'plessi 
per.-ever'ince, mire ihan by any brilliant tali n^s he pos- 
sess, s in his professi'T, the fallea foriuties of hi ■ hou-e, a 
great name some forty years since, I e fore his father's 
b:uikriiptcy. An eye inflrm.ary, with the usual quantum 
sufncit of pufRtig that heralds these very charitable insti- 
tution.-', and which tkry now, enri hed by such " appli- 
anc"f,'' w.iiild call chalatanerie, paved the way for ihat 
p itronage which the arisocracy have since bestowed 
upon hun Now, t-rm in his saddle, he says, Viva la 
Humbug! Let lho^e laugh who win for he h.is doubled 
his f'/itiine b" niariying h 1 g and-daught r of thw late 
(irn. Wm. FIcyd His brotu r John lias been an im- 
men>eop latir m stocits, aul Majo r Joseph, another bto- 
III. r, IS a man of mucliscie title acrjuinmBUts. 
D-^laplaine John F. .... 200,000 

His father was a rich old New Yorker, and John F. 
married silso a daughter of the rich Isaac Clason. 
DelmonirioJohn .... 200,000^ 

Who has not heard of the Frenrh-ltalian Restaurant of 
Dclmomco and his brother Peter. No parallel case of 
anltaliaureaping such a fortune has ever occurred in the 
history of this city. But if the best of fare and choice 
wines -and unceasing politeness to their guests merit tor- 
tune, they eminently desei-ve what they have earned. 
The Delmonicos are natives of that part of Switzerland 
which borders on Italy. They may be .-iaid to have first in- 
troduced into our city a taste for those fashionable com- 
forts which can no where else be I'.nmd but in the nnsine 
ofa French Restaurateur, and since then others have 

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tried the experiment, but no one with the complete suc- 
cess which has attended their more perfect arriingemenls. 
Tact, ditpatch, cleanliness, courteous attention, and the 
chc>icest dishes and liquors served at a reasonable charge 
with pre-eminent skill are the elements of their populari- 
ty. John, besides the splendid hotel he lias built on the 
French plan in the very business heart of the city, owns 
also a larg'e country seat at Newtown, L. I. They are 
now among our most monied men, c;.sh in hand, and 
withal of <{reat prudence. The eudorseiueut '■Delmom- 
co" would go as far as almost any name. 

Deluze LP. 100,000 

Forei;^ner — dry goods — respectable. 

Demilt Samuel 100,000 

Old New Yorkers, jinii have made clocks and watches 

to some purpo=e. Thtir cluoiiometeis don't go upon 

tick. 

DemingF. 

Dennison Chas. - . . . . 

Depeyster J. W (Estate of John W atts) 
One of our oldest Dutch families, that like 



250 ceo 

200,000 

400.000 

yoorl Old 

Look at the list of Bur- 



wine or cheese need no eulogy, 
gomasters. 

DeRhamH.C. 150,OCO 

A foreign house, iriterm Jiied with om" Muores. 
Def-brosses (Esraie (>f James) - - 600,000 
Tliis is one of the old New York estates and families, 
which have accumiilaiid like many otiieis from large 
real possessions, Irom long before ihe American revdii- 
tioa, and passed by intermarriage inio other names The 
Desbmssps family, long deemed by the false standard in 
this country, for being in possession of considerthle real 
estate for half a century or upw.iuN, as among the "pa- 
tres conicrlpii, are any thing t)Ut .patrician in ihtir ex- 
traction. OUIEli-s Drsbrosses and his Droiher, (.t'le latter 
grandfather of James above,) came out to ihis country 
as among the very pooresi; of the Houguenot emigrations, 
near two centuries smce. They settled here, and carried 
on their vocation as Frenth confectioners in a very hum- 
ble way, very probably the fashionable catert^rs for the 
few fetes and festivals that took place among the elite of 
society in those pi imiiive days. Their t«vo niaiiien sis 
ters being at the same lime ihe most esteemed milliners 
of th U day, and furnishing the latest Parisian fashions, 
to our then belles of Hioadway, exciting thus at that ear- 
ly period a taste lor French costumes which is now all 
tiie rag.-, and not extraordinary when we reflect how 
Well the classical taste of the French in matters of fe- 
male atiire is adapted to the beauiiful and s\!phrlike tt t 
forms of American ladies. Through the aid of con'ec- H-ogar H. h 
lionery and mill in^iry the grandson, J^mies Desbrosses, Edaar Wra 
above, became exceedii gly wealthy and left his properly 
to two dauThtcrs, one ot whom married John Hunter, at 
present a senator in our legislature, and tlie oiher a Mr. 
Over ng, of Rhode Island. Ttiefale of the Chadeayce 
(sometimes spelt ancienily and improperly Shadden, as 
pronounced.) fahiiiy, is .singularly contrasted with that of 
the lJ*!sb(Osses. The Chadeaynes were also Huguenos, 
and came hither at the same tune with thy Desbrosses. — 
In their own country of France the Chadeaynes (asthe 
Desbrosses tli>-in-elves hav.'^ often admitted.) were of the 
ancient a^ i=tocracy, into whose society the Desbrossts 
could not Jiave obttined admission, ilere the picture, 
under the oji.iration of the rotatory topsv-'iirvy machine- 
ry of our whoiesome system of polity, has been sadly 
leversed, and the Chadeaynes have beea lor generations 
down amoiig the "hewers of wood asid dr-iwers of wa- 
ter," ana " none so poor to speak to them." 
De Rtiyter John - . - - 100,000 

Dey Anthony 200,000 

But few of our eminent lawyers have struck out ivito 
such successful Speculations in real estate as this gentle- 
man who, however, possesses far more shrewdness and 
long-reac.luug sagacity than most men, either in or out 
of the legal or any other in'ofessiou. His operations in 
latter years seem to have been much comrued to the 
mauagemeut of his property. 

Dickinson C. - - - - - 300,000 
Ui on tucicu', honoied hiiXiau in the early annals, and 



this one a ship chatd'er -ni .'•hipping merchant, who thtJB 
acquire.'*, nenr hal( a century s-ince, a splendid foriune. 
The laie Edgar Ev.rt<i ii, Bsq , son ot Nicholas, deceased, 
married a d lU^hter of Mr. DicKinson. 
Donaldson Jamea .... 250,000 

Donaldson Robert .... 250,000 

These rich Donaldsons are Scotch gentlemen. 
Douglas George 400,000 

Douglas Wrn. 400,000 

Geo. and William, sons of Goo. above. See Cniger, 
Downing George .... 100,000 

Drake James I. 200,000 

The Drakes are an old New York family. This one's 
father wgs in tile clothing line, and well did he feather 
his own nest. The othr-r rich Drakes were uncles of 
James J. D., ana all hail from Admiral Shr Francis D. 

Drake Mrs. Susannah - - - 300,000 
Her hut-bai.d w.is broiher of James Drake, deceased. 
On ^ of her daug.ilers manied John R. Townsend ^vide.) 

Drake John 200,000 

Drake Jacob 100,000 

Drajier Simeon, Jr. - - - - 100,000 

He and his 8 or 9 brothers, remarkable the most of 
them for tlieir fine personal appearance and intelligence 
and business habits, inherited from their worthy father, 
of New England, came to New York to seek their fortune 
upon tills wide field of meicahiile enterprise, and well 
have tliey for the most past succeeded. Simeon Jr. but 
for his unfortunate connection with party politics would 
doubtless still possess the fortune, and wealth which 
his active industry ai-quired, but at all events may count 
with certainty on that which we have given above as the 
probable portion on the lowest estimate of what will ac- 
crue to his wife from her father, the wealthy John Hag- 
gerty, Esq. 
Drew Daniel 200,000 

Of the firm of Drew, Robinson & Co., broker", and 
owner of the steamboat Rochester, a shrewd, money 
maliiog man. 

Dubois Cornelius 400,000 

One of our oldest, wealthiest, and most respected of 
merclianit— of French extract of great distinction. 

Dykers John H. 100,000 



E 

100,000 

100,000 

Sou of William, who begnn as a poor Irish emi/rant, 
and thus gradatim and seriatim worked his way up the 
ladder to bc-ome the holder of a gre-'testaU. Even 
the " Le Roy" blood did not think an alliance vvitli self- 
made IMr. Edgar disparaghig— nor was it. 



150,000 

- 100,000 

100,000 
father-in-law of the 

150,000 



Eggleson Tliuinas 

Emanuel Mich'l - 

Embury Peter 

A worthy grocer and old "cit," 
lovely poetess and writer, Mrs. E. 

Evert.-^en (Estate of) Nichulas 

Uf the very oldest, purest Dutch blooil, was this truly 
eiiiiaeut counsellor and most estimable gentlemin. The 
T rigei)i:or of ih» frimily was Commodore Evtrtsen, the 
" Ai'i'i rai Vn.i TroajLp" of thor.; days' in the bloodless 
f xp di ioiiS o'cock boats W'iich th- L'titch Govt rnor sent 
crui,.^ing d.iwn the Long Islt:rd coast to keep tnose Eng- 
liaii "vdasola" in dua subjeciiou. 



Faile Edw. G. 200,000 

Ricli grocers, he and his bi'other, and muagre thcnam 
would be the last iofail in whatever obligationsoecom 
thera as hjuorable men. 



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Fanshaw D. - 150,000 

Another of our wdrthy types— self-ma.ie. 

Ferris Chas. G. 200,000 

Our worthy Congressman — inliOTited a largi; f.iruine 

from his fjither, who made it while in a public situation, 

as inspector of tiour, we believe. A very anciom, fdinily 

of iliis piovince. 

field H. W. 200,000 

Field BenjnH. 100,000 

(Field Heirs of Moses) - - - 3;)0,000 
0( an ancient New England family of great rospt- cta- 

bility vs'ere the Fields. " Mr. Robert Field" being one of 

the earlinst settlers at Boston. 

Fish Preserved 100,000 

Of an ancient family of England, who located over 

two cen'uries since, first at Saugus, near Boston, 

then at Sandwich, and finally at Newtown, Long Island. 

So the merry taleof Nantucket that a foundling on she 

be ich rescued by a whale boat from a watery grave was 

tlnis named, falis to the ground. 

Fitch Asa Jr. 500,000 

Of New England — long a mprchant at Marseill's, and 
through many ups and downs of life, and now in the vale 
of years, has come back with a constitution enfee- 
bled, but bringing such wealth that lie ranks as one of oiij 
richest and most recherche old bachelors. It is not every 
"lame duck" — a common phrase of his — that could come 
out so tall, and loom so large and lofty in kaxite societe, 
after passing through the severe orde .1 Asa has submit- 
ted to. But paciencia! as the Spaniard says. 

Foster Andrew 100 000 

Scotch. The other Fosters here are of an emigrant fa- 
mily from New England Uiat early settled at Jaiauca, 
L.I. 

Foulk Joseph 300.000 

The Foulks are wealthy Eng-lish. gentlemen who have 
been for many years in the very first ranks of our high- 
minded honorable merchants. , 
Foulke P. Louis - ... - 100,000 

Fov^'le^Theo. 200,000 

The father deceased about the close of the revolution- 
ary war, became suddenly wealiny. We believe he was 
an officer under Washingtou. 

Fox George - 150,000 

We cannot trace his lineage to Geo. Fox, the shoema- 
ker, founder of the Quakers. 

Fox George T. Jr. 100,020 

FoxWm. W. 200,000 

Fiiedler Ernest - . , - - 100,000 
A Gtrman me. chant. 

Furman Gabriel 200,00D 

A very respectable and ancient English family, one of 
the earliest among those who colonized L'jng Island. — 
Formerly Superintendent of tiie Alms House. Judge Jno. 
T. Irving, deceased, (brother to Washington living) be- 
came enriched by marrage with a daughter of Gabriel 
Furman. 

FurnissWm. P. 000,000 



Gallatin Albert .... 100,000 

Swiss. Formerly Secretary of the Treasury of the U. 
States. 

Gardiner Thos. 500,000 

Gardner John 100,000 

Gardiner David 150.000 

To the ancestors of this distinguished family belonged 
Gardiner's Island, Suffolk, Co., L. I. One was called 
" Lord Gaidner," by some of his poor tenantry 

Garner Thomas . . . . 200,000 



Game- Jap. 6 (brother of the jreredirg) 200,000 

It is a grateful task to note iu conspicuous terras, the 
fortunes of these two distinguished merchants, wlio hare 
literally won laurels and golden opinions. FaiUng in 
1832, they rose by greut energy and industry to wealth, 
and in 1835 paid otf every slulling of their obligations, 
with interest' to boot. Of how few can this b? said .' To 
most people, therefore, who are now revelling on the 
ruined fortunes of the widow and the orphan, the remin- 
iscences ofthe past are liarrowing and scorching, if their 
consciences are not seared. 

Gebhard F. (Estate of) - - - 500,000 
An Old Gnrnn'i, Eowdead; Ids large estate the result 
of y-ars of paiieat industry. 

Gelstnn (Estate of) David - - - 200.000 

Old Mr. David Gelston, (deceased) v.*as a child of for- 
tune in the matter of official emoluments, having held the 
colleetorship of this port under sundry demooratio admin- 
istration--, and thus, though beginning poor in life and of 
obscure family in Suifolk (^o., made any amount of money, 
whereby his family are placed far out of the reach of 
v.'ant. 

Geraud William (French) - • - 100,000 

Gibhs 100,000 

Giffjrd Arthur I^ 100,000 

Mr. Gifford was educated and graduated as a physician, 
but not choosing as a gentleman to wade tlirough the 
tortuous and muddy paths by which some ofthe members 
of an overpopulatedand starved profession are compelled 
to get their bread, and being too high-minded to resort to 
lowi arts and cunning to obtain distinction, made his debut 
in the broker line in Wall street, and has there operated 
to an extent to justify his most sanguine expectations. — 
He glories still in the beatitude of single blessedness. 

Gihon John (French) ' - - - 100,000 

Gilhfirt IVIrs. (widov? of W. W. G.) - 150,000 

W. W. Gilbirt, deceasfd — for many years one of the 
most eminent of our fashionable retail diy )!ood mer- 
chants in Bro.idway, and uncleof 'he present "Garry G." 
the famous minstrel poiilictan. "Garry" and William 
W. were the Stewarts of that day among the lady ptu-- 
chasers. 

Gilbert Joshua 100,000 

Gilley Mrs . . . - . 150,000 

Her nnsband, deceased, by tir'h Fcotrh, arquireil hia 
fortune ia tii'- biiok ine, a tiie piiriripal parln t in one of 
the m St c.i-i bra ed stor. s ia thai bu-iuLSi of wi i ;h our 
ti y c .uld I lieu bnasr. 

Gir.ind Jacob P. (French) - - - 100,000 

Gir.T.iid Joseph (French) - - - 200,000 

Glover (Estate of) John J. - - - 400,000 

Long a highly respected merchant and one of the 
eaiiiestof the resident English dry good importers. His 
numerous daughters all save one or two are married and 
enjoy the patrimony of their father's honest earnings. 
One married Mr. HoUey of Connecticut, another Alfred 
P. Edwards, Esq., a third the Rev. Mr. Eastburn, and a 
fourth the Hon. 0. C. Cambreling. 

Goelet George 100,000 

Son of Peter P. G. , deceased. 

Goelet Peter (Another son f^f do.) - 300,000 
Peter P. and Robert Ratsey G., sons of an old and re- 
spectable merchant, and both married daughters of Thos. 
Buchanan, Scotch, merchant of this citv, prior to the 
American revolution. Thos. Buchanan's father was 
Mayor of Glasgow, in Scotland. 

Gomez A. L. (in right of wifo,) - 200,000 

Goodhue Jonathan 400,000 

Universally beloved for his good heartedness, which, 
however, is often imposed upon by artful dupes, particu- 
larly under the m.ask of religion. A first rate merchant 
and most humane and charitable to the poor. His fiuher 
was an honest blacksmith of Salem or Portland, do^vn 
east, and the iiimor la that there is in Mr. Goodliue a 



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}puch of tlip aboriainnl or Indian Wood. Kh features, ex- 
pression and complexion favor iliis impression. 

Goodwin (firm Goodwin, Fisher & Co.) 100,000 

Grahnm Bernard 150,000 

A self made man. Was an Irish porter and laborer to 

Peter Harmony, (see below) and from thence arose to be 
iiis partner. 

Greenwood (Estate of) John - - 150,000 

This it may be said was the father of New York Den- 
tists. Of a highly respectuhle family in ihe. Bay State, 
and cradled in the revolution his youthful ardor while 
but a boy impelled \\\m into the ranks of Washington's 
army, and after the close of the war, insuccessful practice 
in this city as a dentist he rose to great renown, and was 
the dentist of his former great captain, (VVashini^ton) up 
to his death. He was a venerable man of great originali- 
ty and shrewdness of mind on all subjects, a great reader 
and deep thinker, generous and cliivalroas in disposition, 
of ready wit and full of the anecdote andlorc ofthe past. 
In his profession his expert and adroit workmanship, bold 
iiigenuity and resources under all difficulties, acquired 
him a reputation that left him without a competitor, and 
Jjrought him large gains, which fortunately invested, ac- 
cumulated to a great estate for his worthy children, two 
bf whom, Isaac and Clark, though thus inheritors of 
wealth, felt an honorable pride in following their father's 
profession, and also arrived to gre;;t eminence. 

Greeley Augustus 100,00(? 

Griffia Francis 100,000 

Griffin George 250,000 

Literally a very tall and most accomplished lawyer, 
whose fame at our bar for near half a century i^ too well 
ftstablished and known to require comment. Wc believe 
he is of a New England family. 

Grinnell H. 200,000 

Grinnell M. H. 150 000 

The popular ex Con^restjman. born in New Redi'urd, 
«T)terprising and liberal ; he realizes our beau ideal of a 
New York merchant. 

Griswold George ----- 300,000 
One ofthe household of the " Patres Conscripti," of 
Connecticut. Thn'e'xsno pa^orriui^m. here. Mei-inow 
J-anking in the line of India merchants in more senses than 
one. 

'Griswold N. L. (Brother of Geo.) - - 400,000 

Grosvenor Jasper - . - . 200,000 

Grosvenor Serb 250,000 

Dry Good Merchant, of an old New England family, 
and brother of the once disiinguished federal orator aiid 
Congressman, deceased. (Tnornas P. G.) Se'h is uncle of 
the widow ofthatlatehrilliantmeteor in judicial acumen, 
S. A. Talcotf, that set so prematurely in clouds and dark- 
ness. 

Green John C.(Indiainerch<int) - - 400,000 
Married the daugnter of Geo. Oriawoid, (above) 



H 



200,000 



Hadden David - - - - 

Scotch Dry Good Merchant, respectable. 
Haggerty John 500,000 

(See Austin, David.) A foremost man among our 
hierchanls, and has acquired great wealth as an auction- 
eer. 

Paight David L. - - - 200,000 

Haight Richard K. 100,000 

, Of an old New York family.. He and brothers are 
sons of an eminent saddler. Richard, like the Muscovite 
Emperor, worked as a day laborer in France to acquire 
a certain mystery in trade touching pri'ts for hat linings, 
and niiw reaps the monopoly obtained by his spirited un- 
dertakings, together w th a fortune inherited. Madame 
'R. is the fair authoress ofthe entertaining book of Travels 
to Egypt, &c , and is a fine sample of a pretty Long Isl- 
^d girl from old SuiTolk. 



Haines R. S 100,(>{^ 

Hale David 100,000 

This is the " Vicar of Bray," editor of the Journal o? 
Commerce, a yankee by birth, but a Jesuit at heart, and 
as true a disciple of Ignatius Loyola as though he had' 
been educated at the Sorbonne. As an editor unsparing, 
vindictive, filled with sanctity and duplicity to the crown 
of his head — being all things to all ineu, both in religion 
and politics, and hiring out his Tabernacle to whoever 
pays the best. 

Hall J. Prescott 100,000- 

Hall Valentine G. I - - - 100,000 
Hal stead Caleb O. ^ - - - 100,000 

Halstead Win. M. 150 000 

Hamilton J. C. 200,000 

Son ot the renowned statesman Hamilton, and also his 
biogr ipher. Married a daughter of the rich Dutch mer- 
chant Vandenheuvel, deceased, and owns thereby the 
American Hotel. 

Hammersley Lewis C. - - - 200,000 

Of an old and respectable New York family. His 
father, Thomas, acquired a large fortune in the dry 
good line. 

Harper Brothers . „ . - 200,000 

These are the /our remarkable men, who of a highly re- 
spectable English family that anciently settled upon Long" 
Island, have risen by their enterprise and industry from 
journeyincn printers to become the most celebrated pub- 
lishers in America, and among the names that will go 
down to posterity with the Galignanis and Murrays, and 
Conihihhs of Europe. The Harpers have done more 
practically for the encouragement not only of domestic 
authors but for the diffusion ofthe literature and science 
of other countries than all the universities, colleges, 
academies and schools of the Union put together. Nor 
have their profits, though large, been proportionate to 
their tiuly pattiolic and noble exertions. New York may 
be proud of the birth-right of these men, an-d that she has 
produced those great operators, these high-priests of 
Minerva, who have erected here a holy temple, as it 
were, in the midst of money-changers and shopkeepers, 
to keep alive the undying fires of intellect, to guard and 
trim tlie lamp where genius may kindle its illuminating 
torch and learning diffuse abroad its milder beams. With- 
out them or some such as shall follovv in their foot- 
steps, darkness would come over the land. But for these 
humble printers who have appreciated ,the spirit of the 
times, and saw and felt the necessity of acting in keeping 
witlr the accelerated movement of thought and of indus- 
try which steam-power has given to this age, ourpeople in 
the dissemination of that most useful and potent of all 
influences, mental power and the knowledge which it 
produces, would have been a century behind the rapid 
and advanced progress they have made. It was to com- 
pete with them that the free press of our country was 
stimulated to endeavors and prodigious results, which 
have astonished the world. The lightning-like rapidity 
with which the choicest coinings of the brain in foreign 
lands, are almost immediately made the common proper- 
perty and universally circulating cheap commodity of our 
own people, threaten in time to make thebook-busmesSj if 
not periodical literature also, a dead letter and destructive 
pursuit to those who embark in it. For it would seem 
that every production that hereafter emanates from the 
closet of the author must seek this e very-day channel of 
the penny press, to reach the public market. To the 
universal taste for reading whatever is worthy to be 
perused, and which the Harper cheap press gave the first 
great impulse to, are we then to ascribe indirectly the 
immense diffusion which is now immediatelygivenby the 
penny press in our country, to whatever reaches us from 
abroad, fresh almost and at themomeni, that it is wrought 
from the mind of its author. Once thus gratified with 
what, from the extreme cheapness of penny publica- 
tions may he deemed the almost gartuitous offerings to our 
countrymen, ofthe cream and marrow of foreign litera- 
ture, it is not to be imagined after the practical workingi 
of this operation as exemplified recently in the national 
reception of Boz, and the familiarity of every one that 



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P^nread, with all t"he writings of such shining luminaries 
as he and Bulwer, and others, that our people will ever 
surrenderso dear a privilege, however wrong it may be 
f^ct, when the subjer-t of international copy-right is fairly 
<{anvassed. The Harpers, be it added to this peroration, 
are exemplars also in private life and as moral and reli- 
gious men, being all of them, we believe, members of the 
Methodist Church and of many Temperance and charita- 
ble societies. So much for a brotherhood of New York 
born printers, to show what mechanic industry can ac- 
fcomplish. 

Harmon Philip ----- 100,000 

liarmony Peter - - - - - 500,0()0 
A Spanish cabin boy was his beginning, and he after- 
wards became familiar with the West India seas. V/e 
are in the dark as to liis career afterwards, except that he 
is now one of our most opulent merchants. 

Hart Eli 100,000 

The Flour Merchant, whose store was sacked by riot- 
ers. 

Hatch George W. .... 100,000 

Rawdon, Wright and Hatch are the celebrated bank 
engravers, and another sample of intelligent, spirited 
mechanics, making for themselves a name and a fortune 
incomparably more to be prized than the wealth which 
has 1 een acquired too often by mere rnercahtile gambling. 
There is substance, and truth, and reality — something 
tangible, and definitive, and susceptible of ocular de- 
monstration and utility in the fruits of mechanic labors, 
but whS,t visiljle means of livelihood, and what direct and 
practicle utility do we see in many other professions, 
to wit: swindling stock operations, but which arc yet 
deemed more renutable than the walks of mechanic life. 
The time is gone by, however, when dreaming speculators 
and fancy operators can any longer sneer superciliously 
at the " brawny arms" and " russet palms" of the honest 
laborer. Thus much has been done by breaking up a 
false system of credit, and by consequence, breaking up 
the nests of lounging, idle upstarts, that like muslirooms 
on a dung-hill, sprouted up out of the corrupt masses of 
rag-paper and spurious capital. May Rawdon and Hatch 
never lend their barin and mezzotinto to any paper that 
does not command yellow mint drops instanter at the 
counter on the very face of it. Mr. Hatch is half brother 
of Ex-Govarnor Throop, and to judge by his early pros- 
perous career cannot be said to have counted his chickens 
before they were hatched. Mr. Rawdon is a branch of the 
Irish family of Rawdon, Eail of Moira, who was so dis- 
tinguished as a British partizan or cavalry officer during 
the revolutionary war. 

Havermeyer Wm. F. ... - 100,000 

Old German emigrant family. 

Haxtun A. B. 150,000 

Heard James - - - - - 300,000 

Of an ancient family of New Jersey are he and his 
brother Nicholas T. H. 

Heard Nicholas T. ... - 100,000 

Hearn Geo. A. - - - - 100,000 

Hedges Catharine . - . . 200,000 
. A tall, slendtr yankee, straight as a poplar tree, tame 
hither lo thi? Basel to seek his fortune. It was for a long 
time a desperate struggle betweea liim and the grim- 
■vi^aged fttnd, poverty ; nordil he better his cindiiion by 
the active pan he took in the poliiicil turmoils of the 
Buckta'Is and Clntonians, till meeting one day will a 
venerable maiden spinster, who was lux'irivin? on the 
fat estates left hwrfrom h rRu'gers' relative", he stepped 
into her good graces and fcrtune, and now dashes by 
" Crosby Uastle" as proudly as any of th9 baneflciaries of 
that ancient property in the eastern suburbs of our city. 



Hendricks 

Hendricks - 

Hendricks 

Hendricks Uriah - 

Hendricks Widow - 
Rich Jews. 



200,000 
200,000 
200,000 
300,000 
300,000 



Heyer Corneliua 100,-000 

Verv old New Yorkers. 

Hicks RpnryW. 250,00(5 

Robert Hicks, Plymouth 1621, became a rich merchant. 
This was the progenitor of tlie family in Rhode Island, 
Long Island and New York. They have always " cot- 
toned" to merchandise and been distinguished in Uie com- 
mercial annals of this country as shipping merchants at 
Plymouth, Newport and New York for 200 yea^s past. 

Hicks Silas 150,000 

Rose to fortune with the late Mayor, C. W. Lawrence, 
in the auction business, and retired early to the precincts 
of Flushing, to enjoy his " otium cum dignitate." Of 
the family of Hicks, of Plymouth, (Mass.) 

Hicks John G. 200,000 

Hicks John H. 250,000 

Hicks Samuel 250,000 

Hicks Mrs. 150,000 

Hoffman L M. (A German family) . 100,000 
His brother is As. V. Chancellor. The first Hoffman 
here was Anthony, a venerable and highly esteemed mer- 
chant, grandfather of L. M. H. Few families, for so few a 
number of persons as compose it have cut a 'larger swath' 
or "bigger figure" in the way of posts of preferment. Ta- 
lent and also public services rendered, martial gallantry, 
poetry, judicial acumen, oratory, all have had their lustre 
mingled with this name. Beekman Verplanck Hoffman, 
a post captain; JuJgH Josiah O. Hoffman, and his sons 
Ogden and Charles, &c., all foremost men In our com- 
munity. 

Holbrook Ephraim . • - - 200,000 

Connecticut, and rich by dry goods. &c. 
Holmes Eldad 150,000 

Old New Yorker, or very long here as a respectable 
perchant, of the old democratic school. Silas Holmea 
is a horse of a different color, and celebrated as the most 
milucky dog in running vessels on reeft and rocks that 
ever commanded a ship. 
Holmes Silas ... . 150,000 

Hone Philip ...... 100,000 

A worthy man, and with his brother John, famous auc- 
tioneers in their day and made great gains by it. They 
were sons of a German, a respectable baker by profession, 
whose hard earnings the boys turned to good account, 
so that Philip became for one year Mayor of the city, and 
a gay, jovial, capital Mayor he was, and a most enterpri- 
sing, liberal citizen has he always been. Honesdale will 
tell a tale, to the future, how honorably his name associ- 
ates with the Delaware & Hudson Canal. [See An- 
thon.] 

Ilosack (Estate of David) - - 100,000 

Biit few names will shine long in the annals of meaical 
histf ry brighter than tills. Whatever may be said of hia 
foibles as a man, his superior practical talent, sagacity, 
boldness and decision as a bedside practitioner, and the 
invaluable lessons in medicine he has left w ill live forever 
while truth and common sense prevail. He was a man 
reckless and extravagant in money matters, and as he 
often said, his embarrassments were perpetually bringing 
him to the verge of bankruptcy. In latter years, happily 
or unhappily for him, a sudden tide of wealth poured 
profusely into his lap by his iii-^rriage with the rich widow 
of Henry A. Coster, (see Coster,) by which he realized 
the immediate possession of over half a million of person- 
al property alone, that nearly turned and intoxicated his 
exchable brain and impetuous temperament. Converting 
that and portions of the large real estate income of Mrs. 
Coster into new purchases in liis own mine, he hoped to 
gvie a solid and permanent basis to the opulence with 
which he naturally and modestly designed to enrich his 
0!cn chidren by a former wife. At Hyde Park he laid 
out his lawns and grounds with a luxuriou-sness that sur- 
pissed the English gentry, and spared no expense, trans- 
planting often full grown trees from the sides of moun- 
tains to form readyraade forest scenery upon his own plan 
tation ; togetlier with this property he made large invest- 
ments in insurance stocks, but m ius avidity to become *, 



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Vrtems it seemed as If an evil star would indisnsntlv 
rob liim of all. TJie dreadful onflagralion iJiat laid 600 
houses in ashes in one ni/i;Ii% swallowed up nearly every 
insurance company in tlie city. Th^; shock caused an 
apoplexy, and he perished; and since his death the terri- 
ble depression in real estate has in tine left his own chil- 
dren wiih butafew thousands— barely enough to support 
them, and even much of ihat has been nielteit away. So 
much for a selfmr.de man, whose father was a humble 
redemptioner that worki d his appreniiceship out in the 
i?oo6rcwt/« family, and became ri.-h, and richly endowed 
his favorite son David, and then set him up in practice by 
purchasing out Dr. Samuel Bard. But for Davids mar- 
riage with a widow of extreme wealth, he would have 
been now and for years hence at the head of his profes- 
sion, and of eminent usefulness— all of which and his 
life were suddenly arrested by the potent influence of 
gold. 

Howard William W. - - - - 600,000 

Howell Mrs. Wm 100,000 

Was a daughter of the rich olcl Blackwell, an old New 
York family, nnd owner of Blachwell's Island at Hell 
Gate. Her husband a Howell or Hoel, old Long Isbnd 
Suftjlk name, and his niece and heir is Julia Dekay, of a 
very ancient New York family, and wife of Major Jack 
Downing No. 2, i. e. C. A. Davis, vide. 

Howland G. G. 350,000 

One of the specinl partners to the tune of $150,00ilm 
the House of Howland & AspinwaH. He and his brother 
Sam obtained some notoriety by building vessels for the 
Greeks in their struggle for independence. 

Howland Jno. H. - - - . 300,000 

Howland S. S. 250,000 

Howland Wm. Howard ... 500,000 

Hoyt Gould 200,000 

Of a respectable Connecticut family, and long known 
as one of our oldest merchants, under the distinguished 
firm of Hoyt & Tom. A son of this retired "Pentier" 
married a daughter of President Duer, of Columbia Col- 
lege. 

Hubbard N. T. - - - . 100,000 

Ancient and honored name of New England. 

Hudson Joseph - - - - 150,000 

, Respectable English importer for some years here, and 
has douljled bis fortune by marrying a daugliter of the 
rich Henry Laverty. He has no reason to regret bavim^ 
adopted for his home the capital which graces the noble 
river tliat bears his name in honor of its discoverer, and 
peradventure his ancestor, " Hendrick Hudson."' 

Hunt Jonathan 1,000,000 

Reputed a millionaire and a protege of our parvenu, 
cliques, who are by no means reluctant to give him the 
hand of fellowship, because Jonathan, like them, came 
from nothing. But it is a mystery how a person yet un- 
der forty, and who a veiy few yeirs since was in ihe 
line of small groceries at Troy hecame suddenly at Mobile, 
as if by the magic of open scssamc ! into such surprising 
wealth as ia imputed to hiin. The good old dames who 
hunt up fortunes for matches to Iheir scare crow daugh- 
ters, are as mad after our worthy apple merchant since 
he became repu.ed so rich as they have been for some 
time back to get hold of Chmese Whetmore. (See Whet- 
more.) 

Hunt Thomas 150,000 

Hyslop Robert 100,000 

Aa old New York family. 



Ireland Andrew L. 
Ireland Wm. IT, 
Ireland George - 



100,000 
100,000 
100,000 



Irving Mrs. Jno. T. (husband's estate,) S0O,00(J 
Judge John T., deceased, and Washington Irving, soi 
renowned, and William, Ebenezer, Peter, &c., are the 
sons of a respectiblc shoemaker (deceased) in William 
street, in this bleesed city of New York. 



Jackson Hamilton - - - - . 200,000 
Inherits the large estate of Jno. Jackson, one of two 
brotliers (John and Samuel) who early located at Broolt- 
l3'n, and became rich by the rise of real property. These 
two brothers Jackson were lineal descendants of Colonel 
Jno. Jackson, High SherifTof Queen's County, Judge, &c. 
eldest son and heir of Robert and Agnes Jackson, among 
the first English settlers of Hempstead, L. I.— about 
1654. 

Jaffrey Robert 100,000 

James Henry 100,000 

Son of the rich Wm. James, of Albany, (deceased ) and 
a gentleman celebrated, we believe, for liis extensive 
scholarsliip and literary attainments. 

Jan eway (Estate) 400,000 

The Janeway property comes chiefly by intermarriage 
through that most ancient and wealthy and respectable 
Dutch family Van Zandt, descendants maternally of Lord 
Peter Prauw. 

Janeway Jacob I. ... - 100,000 

JayWm. 150,000 

Son of Gov. John Jay. See Jay. 
Jay Peter A. 150,000 

The first Jay on the Records appears to have been John 
Jay (probably a Hougenot), a quaker in the suile of Geo. 
Fox, in his journey through America 1671-2, and who 
meeting with a dislocation of his neck, was marvellously 
cured by the aforesaid George, somewhere in New Jer- 
sej', and thus by this miracle lived with his head on to be- 
come the head of an illustrious house. 
Jennings Chester .... 100,000 

Came a poor boy, a stage driver, from New England, 
and entering tlie door of the City Hotel with whip in 
hand, asked for work, was hired as a waiter, and by good 
conduct rose successively to the rank of head waiter, and 
afterwards, with his equally enterprising and famous fel- 
low-waiter, Willard, to copartner in that ancient establish- 
ment, where his fortune was thus honestly and honorably 
acquired— but badly singed by dipping in Biddle banking. 

JewittJohn 100,000 

Johnson WHliam Samuel - - - 200,000 

A higlil}' respectable lawyer, prominent whig politi- 
cian, and late Alderman, and grand sou of the former 
President Johnson, of Columbia College, a Connecticut 
family, and Wm. S. gets the mass of his fortune by mar- 
riage'with the daughter " Cardinal Woolsey," as this 
eminent merchant used facetiously to be called " on 
change." The " Cardinal" was an extensive operator ia 
Coanecliout batiks, and became very rich. 

Johnston John 500,000 

Jones Edwd.R. 300,000 

His father was Joshua, an eminent cooper, and thus ac- 
quired a large fortune, in connexion wiih Jas. Lennox 
(brother of Robert,) m the same business, immediately a^- 
ter tlie revolution. 

Jones Isaac 250,000 

Jones James J. 300,000 

Jones James L. 300,000 

Jones John Q. (deceased) - - 150,000 

Jones Walter R. 250,000 

Judd Samuel 200,000 

From " down east," and educated m the oil line, pro- 
bably among Cape Codders and Nantucketers, and thus 
having become familiar with blubber, sat up here a very 
small shop in ihe upper part of the city, and in which, 



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though not big enough to swing a cat in, he sold lamp 
wicks till he could build his own palaces and ships, and 
drive his own splendid carriage. The dHzzling light of the 
purest sperm that makes a fairy land of his saloons and 
greenhouses on somfi gala light, must shine beautifully 
ana soothingly on the vision of one who can truly say he 
is indebted to none but his own genius and hard toil for 
the gold which whale oil has brought to his house. 



K 



Kane Oliver 200,000 

For many years a distinguished family in New York 
that has seen both much prosperity as well ss the dark 
side of life's pictiu-e. One of the ditshicg young men of 
this family a few years since speculated largely in stocks 
and blew out his brains. But few retain the wealth Ihey 
once had ; most, however, are well intermarried with re- 
spectablH families, being the msclves a race decidedly of 
strong and prominent traits of intellect. 

KeeseJohnD. 200,000 

Of the old established firm of Lawrence & Keese, who 
have during- Ihe last 50 yeaas sold dnigs enough to sup- 
ply half the human race. Mr. K. is a sou of Major 
Keese. (deceased) of the continental line of the revolu- 
tion, afterwards a distinguished lawyer in this city. 

Kearney J. D. Jr (Estate of J. Watts) 300,000 
Young grandson of Jno. Watts, deceased, and wliich 
is the source of his wealth. The Watts family are co- 
temporary with the most di^tinguislied names of oui- ear- 
ly English gentry, Jolm Watts being grandson of Robert 
and Mary Watts — and this Mary the daughter of the 
Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, Wni. NicoU, the 
patentee of the Islip Manor, L. I. Jno. Watts' sister 
was mother of the present Mr. Keimedy, Earl of Cas- 
Bilis. 

Kelly William 150,000 

Kelly Robert 150,000 

Kennedy D^vid ' 200,000 

A highly respectable Scotch nierchimt, who olitained 
some addition to his fortune through his wife, the daugh- 
ter of Robert Lennox. 

Kent James 100,000 

One of the most marked mea of the times, the pro- 
found jurist, and long the celebrated Chancellor of this 
State, and whose opinions and commentaries, nay, mere 
wolds, on all legal matters are themselves like pure gold 
and law for all who wish to know what law is. What a 
gratifying picture of a well-spent life is that of this uni- 
versally beloved man in a green old age, enjoying the re- 
spect of friends, the delights of domestic society, and all 
the glorious vigor and sparkling brightness of that man- 
hood wliich ouce adorned and could still adorn if not 
purify that bench, which would more deplore his loss but 
for the elevation to a most important judicial station of 
that able son for whose shoulders it would seem the father 
designed his own spotless mantle. 

Kermit Robert 100,000 

Of a very old and most respectable New York family. 

Kernochan Joseph - - - . 400,000 
Of a poor Irish family, who were employed as colliers, 

teamsters, &c, ct some of the largo iron w-orks in the 

Highland Mountains, on the west side of the Hudson. 

Joseph went to the West Indies, and came back rich. 

KerrigEin James 130,000 

Ketchum Morris 100.000 

Brother, we believe, of Hham the lawyer, a New 

Yorkelr. 

Keitletas Eugene .... 200,000 
J Of a very ancient New York family. The present 

worthy buftbtr^igedian, James H., (now since the death 

of his cousin) Baron or Lord IlacKett, of Hackeitstown, 

is maternally of the Kettletas line. 

King James G. 100,000 

BouofRufusK. RufusK. byhis powerful mind rose 
great eminence m ; he councils of the nation. His par- 
<s were of humble origin, but few fatliers have lett sons 



whose ambition and towering pride in tlieir " cherished 
parent," have together conspired to give so fictitious and 
forced an elevation and consequence to a family as this 
one has for years enjoyed. Yet, after all, their import- 
ance resolves itself in tJie isolated fact of the fortunate po- 
sition which their father occupied, and whioh was not so 
peculiarly distinguished as to merit the laudation and glo- 
rification which by industrious and indefatigable trumpet- 
ing have been lavished on this individual, otherwise ex- 
tremely obnoxious to the population at large by his aris- 
tocratic pretensions. 

Kiogsland R. - ... - 200,000 

One of the oldest and richest firms in the hardware 
line, and a man of great respectability and high standing 
in this community, a modest gentleman that has calmly 
pursued " the even tenor of his way" without show or 
parade, and thus silently passed down the stream of 
time, every where beloved and honored. Such families, 
how unhke are ihey to the Hutteiing, buzzing things of 
fashion, whose gilded wings collapse with the first shower 
that dims their sunshine, and " then are heard no more." 

Kingsland Daniel C. - - - - 200,000 

Kissam Richard (Estate of) - - 200,000 

An estate honestly, nobly acquired in the surgical pro- 
fession of which he stood undoubtedly at the head in his 
day. But few keener men in wit or with the knife 
could be found any where. His forte was lithotomy, in 
which his cures were truly wonderful. In after life he 
married and soon after died, leaving a large family of 
small children, to whom we beUeve his property was by 
will bequeathed. 

Knapp Shepard - - - . 150,000 

From down East, and self made. 
Kneeland Charles 100,000 

From down East, and self made. 
Knox Alexander 150,000 



Laffan E. 200,000 

LangdonMr. 100,000 

Lasala John B. 100,000 

Laurie George 100,000 

George and John L. for.SO years merchants, and bache- 
lors, (originally from Scotland) and of the very first; 
character and prime brand as to respectability. Tho 
universal consideration they enjoy in this community 
must be a comfort to them when they look back upon the 
bright and honorable career they have passed through, 
though neither, we hope, is yet too advanced into the 
yellow leaf to forswear and become a Benedict, which 
they both know they could easily do, and have only to say 
the word in these hard times, and Hymen stands ready 
to light his altar torch, and cupid to let tly from his quiver 
one of his most barbed arrows, that not even the tough 
texture of a bachelor's heart could resist. 

Laverty Henry 150,000 

The ktenesf, smoothetit chap for small change in the 
way of talk and knowing every body, and everything 
that can be found for the last 40 years. He holds on well 
and is as young and gay as when a boy he dealt out tape 
and bobbinet behind the counter, little dreaming then he 
should one day figure so iarge in Broadway, or that his 
saloons would be hung round wiih the productions of 
his own accomplished daughter's pencil. Some have 
thought her the neroine of Halleck's beautiful poem of 
'•Fanny." 

Lawrence John B. .... 250,000 

A motlel-man of the old school gentlemen merchants 
is he. Of a very ancient house, of an old New York 
familv, and though inheriting a large estate from his 
father, he pursued business with thj ardor of youth, and 
dou!jlcd and trebled his property in the drug line, as 
the head of that celebrated firm, Lawrence, Keese & Co. 
But few such as ho and the late Gen. Matthew Glaikson, 



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Rnd men of that high stamp and tone are now left. The 
halls of our public charities tell of their benevolent deeds 
and the hours they have stolen from busy life to de- 
vote to their duties to the poor and suffering-, to relieve 
the widow and the orphan and to wipe the tear of sorrow 
Trom misery's pallid cheek. 

Lawrence C. W. 100,000 

Of higlily respectable quaker descent on all sides — rose 
to fortune in the Auctioneer house of Hicks, Lawrence 
Sl Co. Cornelius has been Mayor of the city. 

Lawrence D.L. 300,000 

Lawrence Henry H. - - - - 100,000 

Lawrence Isaac (Estate of) - - - 100,000 
The millionaire once so esteemed, has left, it l3 said, 

not a sous ! How much has been eaten up in bad lot 

speculations 1 

Lawrence Joseph 200,000 

Brother of Cornelius, and married a rich heiress, 

daughter of Aid. Thos. S. Townsend, of the Long Is- 

1 and Townsends. 

Lawrence R. M. 100,000 

Lawrence Abraham ... - 250,000 
Descended, with R. M. L. and most of the name in tills 

city, including Cornelius, from three brotliers from Eng- 

lajid, John, William and Thomas. 

Leary James (the fashionable Hatter) 100,000 

Leavitt David 200,000 

From down East, and a merchant— an ultra tea total- 
ler, in which his zeal has made him conspicuous, though 
it has not been turned, perhaps, to a mercenary account 
as ingeniously as Arthur Tappan has trafficked with his 
incendiary abolition plots. 

Lee David 500,000 

Leggett Samuel 300,000 

Leggett Thomas - - .- - - 800,000 

The Leggetts are an old N^ York family, but chief- 
Hy known as a very money-getting race. The one who 
was President of a certain rotten banking institution 
siands as to reputation, in a very equivocal light before 
the communiiy. 

Leggett William ----- 150,000 
Leeeett William F. - - - - 100,000 
Lenox James 2,500,000 

Son of Robert, deceased, who was the British conimis- 
saiy to that charnel house to Americans, the Jer.-ey pri- 
son ship, and thus ingloriously amassed a portion, at 
least, of his wealth. Robert was brother of James. (See 
Jones above. 
LeRoy Jacob R. 300,000 

Of an ancient and highly distinguished Hougenot fami- 
ly, we believe. Daniel Webster, the Sec. of Siate, mar- 
ried for his last and present wife a Miss Le Roy. Jacob 
Le Roy inherits a large estate from his father-in-law, 
Thos. Otis, who as Otis & Swan, hi the war made a great 
deal of money. 

Leupp Charles 150,000 

Lewis Morgan ----- 700,000 

Formerly Gov. of the State, Major General of the Ar- 
my, &c. Acquired his estate by marrying a Livingsttn 
of wealth. Gen. Lewis is of an ancient Welsh family. 



Little Edward 



200,000 



Little Jacob 400,000 

An old and wortliy citizen, and one the shrewdest 
brokers m Wall st. 

Livingston Maturine - - - - 100,000 
Though of the family of Livingston, which for a family 
so prolific and numerous as llieirs is has been one of the 
most weal ihy in the State, but little in the subdivision of 
multiplying generations fell to the share of Maturine, who 
marrying his cousin, daughter of Gen. Morgan Lewis, 
above, has however acquired large opulence in perspec- 
tive. The Livingstons began in this state about 150 years 
ince in the person of a Scotch clergyman, who on a fa- 



mous old white horse made his itinerations through ths 
valley of the Mohawk tell with elTect. Prom him sprang 
an intelligent, enterprising race, who in the next genera- 
tion secured large landed estates, s.nce manorial by their 
extent on both sides the Hudson River. Martin Van Bu- 
ren commenced his career as a village lawyer at Kinder- 
hook by undertaking to invalidate the Livingston titles, 
bin their numbers and wealth were too much for hira. 
Their names loom largely on our records; and after the 
Rensselaers and the Dutch and English noblesse, they 
rank among the most distinguished families m the State. 

Lord Daniel 100,000 

A most profound lawyer, it is said, and none the wors? 
for his filial attention to and affection for, his venerable 
parent, " Doctor Lord." If one may rise to a practice of 
$20,000 per annum on the quirks and quibbles of legal 
technicalities, why may not another upon the mummery 
and mystifications of patent prescriptions in the healing 
art. 1 

Lord Rufus L. - . - - 500,000 

A demi millionaire and a bachelor. His large property 
is composed of a number of valuable stores in the burnt 
district. 

Lorrillard Jacob 1,000,000 

Lorrillard JacooJr. - - . - . 150,000 

Lorrillard Peter 2 500,000 

ThaLorillards are a Hougenot family, we believe, and 
of course of respectable origin, as all who fled hither for 
the glorious object of religious liberty, undoubtedly were. 
The brothers Jacob, Peter and George, the first as a lea- 
ther merchant, »he other two as tobacconists, are famous 
in our city, especially the two last, for the prodigious 
wealth they have acquired by those callings. They en- 
tered early into large purchases of real estate; in the city, 
when there was no such tiling as moonshine lots and 
Munchausen speculators. 

Lorrillard Peter Jr. - - - - 500,000 

Lorrillard Widow - - - - 1,000,000 

Loubat Alphonse 200,00Q 

Lovett James 200,000 

A retired sea captain and afterwards a shipping mer- 
chant, originally from Rhode Island, and of the real grit 
that comes of hate as of yore, from that little chivalrous 
spot that gave birth to a I'eny and a Greene. 

Lovett George - - - - 300,000 

Low (Estate of) Nicholas - - 1,000,000 

Of old respectability, and of the highest standing as a 
merchant, a half a century gone, and as the proprietor of 
Sans Souci hotel at Balston Spa, in her palmy days, madQ 
a princely fortune, which, but for the "moving of the 
waters" to Saratoga would have been doubled. The great 
American pedestrian, Colonel Nicholas, L., who won the 
recent wonderful wager, we believe, of 1000 miles in 1000 
hours, spite of the sneers of his pretended backers, at the 
Union Club, is a worthy son of Nicholas Low. Mr. Chas. 
A. King married a daughter, and thereby inherited a 
large fortune. 
Low Albert 200,000 

Low Daniel 150,000 

Another enterprising, driving, smooth-faced, pleasant 
son of New England, who resided a long time, as a mer- 
chant, in Paris, and surmounting every blasting sirocco in 
trade, came out rich, and spread largely into real estate. 

Ludlow Thos. W. 150,000 

Ludlow (Estate) ... - 300,000 

For a century and more one of the most distinguished 
and wealthy of New York families — now dwindled in 
numbers and fortune, but by maniage engrafted on va- 
rious other excellent families. 

Luff (Estate of) John - - - 200,000 

A most capital man was this respectable German, and 
in the excellent quality of his bread and muffin. Jonas 
Humbert himself, aided by his electrical machine, was no 
circumstance to him. Old Mr. Luff had a pleasant word 
for every one a;5 he rattled arotmd from door to door in 



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iijs long light baker's cart, which it seems to us is now 
become of the things that only once were, and are found 
;ao move among our modern landaus and Berlins. With 
a becoming pride his children revert back with pleasure 
to the honest means by which their revered parent made, 
by his own hands, so large ^.a estate. 



M 



McBride James 500,000 

An Irish gentleman, who by a steady, upriglit, straight- 
forward course of trade in the dry goods line, consolida- 
ting by his unblemished and purelif<: troops of fastfriends 
aj'ound hinj, has amassed a vast property. 

McCall James - - - - - 100,000 

McCarty Thos. S. - - - - 100,000 

McCarty Peter 200,000 

McCoskry Robert . - - - 150,000 

McBrair James 100,000 

McFarlane (Estate of) Henry - - 100,000 

A poor boy, who rose first to a clerk, tlien ^to be iiart- 
ner in the old house of Blackwell, i^on merchants. 

McKie "Ihomas - - . ^ , 100,000 

McLean Htjgh, M.D. . . . 100,000 

A worthy '' medico," and now one of the fathers of 
the profession ; a gay Lothario of an old bachelor is he, 
and a ^^virtuoso" in music and the fine arts ; yet strange 
to say has not, as many have, thereby lost caste aniong 
the faculty, but always has had a great run of practice. 
Much of this good luck is traceable to the fact that his 
worthy mother, Mrs. Glass, was the most popular mid- 
wife among all the gentry of New York in revolutionary 
days, as her advertisement in Rivington's old Tory Ga- 
zette, while the " Britishers" were here, clearly shows. — 
She could do much among the petticoats to forward her 
son's prospects. 

Macoun Wm.T. .... 100,000 
Vice Chancellor, and from the rank of a young attorney 
who came from the country to practice law, and try his 
fortune here, has risen, step by step, l5y his own merits, 
ipto the goiJd opinion of the profession and coriimunily 
till honored with one of the highest dignities of the sitate. 

MacyJosiah 100,000 

From the Cape Cod region. 
Magee James 200,000 

MaitlandR. 150,000 

Scotch, and some of his wealth comes through his 
wife, daughter of Robt. Lennox. See Lennox above. 

Manice D. F. 100,000 

March Charle« ..... 100,000 

Marks Mrs. (?) 200,000 

The husband of Mrs. Marks was a rich .lew from the 
^outh. She is we believe of the ancient Dutcli family 
of Beekmam (vide) of this city. Her son is a gay youth 
and drives the neatest turn-outs of any of ouricau monde. 

Marsh Charles 150,000 

Marsh Stewart C. .... 100,000 

Marshall Benjamin ... - 250,000 
One of the earliest who boldly enterprised American 
manufacturing establishments, and by them has managed, 
strange to say, to obtain large profits and wealth. 

Marshall Joseph - ... - 150,000 

Martin 1 200,000 

Jttason (Estate of ) John - - - 800,000 
Another practical exemplification of the rich rewards of 
ipechaiiic industry. John was a first rate tailor in his 
day, and from cutting (jloth proceeded to the rank of 
"Merchant Tailor and Draper," and by vendinc piece 
goods, and turning over and over again his profits, and 
vesting in real estate when cheap, left near a million — 
and to his credit gave his family an excfllent education; 
one d*ii{hter marrying a Jones, son of a cooper by trade, 



(brother of Edward R. J. above), and therefore keeping 
properly to her own grade, and now at the very tip top 
pinnacle of that peculiar class of dashing, fashionable 
people. A son of Jno. Mason married the charming 
vouns actress, Miss WhPatley, of the Park Theatre, 
talented daughter of her famous, talented moUier, Mrs. 
W., who is still the "Mademoiselle Mars" of that old es- 
tablishment. The Mason family are one of ihose excep- 
tions to the common ruleof parvenuesin our city, that 
they have the Kood sense never to decry mechanics and 
tradespfople from whoni they sprang, but rather court 
them, and give them the entree to their brilliant soirees, 
where the properties of steam engines, the virtues of hick- 
ory hoop-piili-s, and good oak staves, and the last cuts and 
patterns of the costumes of Bond street and the Boule- 
vards are discussed with like philosopliical acumen and 
minuteness. 

Mauran Oroondates - . - - 150,000 
Fonnnrly engai'ed in the trade, and made mo- 
ney alj!0 hv th>^ steam ferry between Havana and 

Iu« snpposprl that he has lost largely by the failure of 
the extensive house of Geo. Knight & Co., of Havana. 

Maxwell Hugh - . - - - 100,000 
One of the ablest lawyers and first of orators at the bar; 
his father was a respectable Scotchman, and a brewer at 
Baltimore, and Hugh married the beautiful daughter of 
an eminent blacksmith of this ciiy. Now their son is 
Secretary of Legation at Petersburg! Such is tlie reward 
of merit. 

MesierP. A. Jr. 100,000 

Of the old Knickerbocker stamp, and a worthy flour 
merchant or bookseller his fatlier was, we forget which. 
Meyer George 100,000 

Milderberger Christian - - - 300,000 
Of the German emigrant colonization that got a good 
fpothold here anout a century since, when property 
could he bought for a mere song. 
Mildeberger John - - - - 150,000 

Miller John G. 200,000 

Rich and rides iu his equipage, but, it is said, sprang 
from a very obscure origin, we believe that of a "candle- 
snutfer" in the Park Theatre. So much the more honor 
to him, to have made such a leap as he has. He need 
not shim investigation into his pedigree, nor cry with 
Oihello, "Put out the light!" for it was truly the light 
and life of his vocation, and the source of his fortune. 

Mills Drake ....'. 100,000 

Mills James ----- 100,000 
MinturnR. B. .... - 100,000 
There are those who have seen pass before them in 
the panorama of the last half century, a succession of 
reigning houses of wide spread fame as India merchants, 
all now toppled down one after the Other, and gone to 
perdition! This Minturn is one of the sons of that Min- 
turn who, with the Franklins and Robinsons, were 
among the very earliest to launch out their 700 ton ships 
for the (I'hina seas, these ships then being deemed Mam- 
moths in naval archilei-ture. How have things changed, 
when ICOO tons is scarcely looked at for an ordinary 
packet! 

MoffattWm. B. 100,000 

Monroe Mrs. James (Douglass Estate) 300,000 

Wife of Gapt. or Col Jas. Monroe,formerly of the army, 
and nephew of the late James Monroe, President of the 
United States, whose ancestor, he boasted in telling, was 
a tanner. 
Moore Clement C. 2.50,000 

.Of the hit;lily respectable family of the late Bishop. 
Moore,wlH)se aricestors located first at Newtown, L. I., as 
plain farmers or mechanics, as mott of the first colonists 
Irom England were. L'l. meni is son ol ihe "enerable 
and revered Bishop Moor<, deceased, of the Epicopal 
G' 11 ch a' d n> p ew of ihe much beloved ana distin- 
guished pi ysickin, Dr Wui. Moore, deceased. 
Moorewood Edmund . - - - 10O,roO 
Morgan Matthew (late N. Orleans) - 150,000 
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Morgan John I. 100,000 

Ricli and of no calling, as we know, hut has been a po- 
litical man, and in high trusts, anit in the midst of party 
strife — always courteous and amiable. A worthy man. 
Morrell Thomas 100,000 

Morris Gouvemeur .... 500,000 
His father, the venerable and famous Gouverneur M., 
late in life married a Randolph, (if Virginia, and left thts 
the only inheritor; richly, as Martin VVilkiris and other 
expectants said, meriting the name of Kiit.us ofl— at that 
jime a great Russian warrior. The Morris family of New 
yoik and New Jersey began on a large figure, and have 
so continued to prosper for 1130 years. Col. Lewis Mor- 
ris, a celebrated Enstiish quaker merchant of B^rbadoes, 
and friend of Wm. Pinn, coming here to New York with 
his own ships and goods, and with his brother, Oaptiin 
Richacd M., making immediately purchases of large tracts 
on Long Island, at Harlem river, at Shrewsbury, &c., N. 
J. (hence Morristown and Morrisana estate, (he last the es- 
tate of the your.gstt-r above,) &c. And from this truly 
illustrious stock came all the Morrises hereabout and in 
New Jersey; and in tlieir hands the p itiimonial estates 
still rest, together witb the household jewelry and plate 
for many genoi'ations back, wllich few families can say. 

Morrison John - - - - - 300,000 

Morae Sidney E. 100,000 

An editor, and son we believe, of the famous geogra- 
pher, the Rev. Jedediam Morse. 

Mortimer Richard .... 200,000 
An honest upright tailor, now retired on a large estate. 
His lovely daughter was deemed, beyond all question, the 
reigning belle at Saratoga — not even eclipsed by Miss 
Jone^j; whose grandpa was alike a self made man from the 
shopboard. [Vide Mason] 

Moss John 200,000 

Mott Samuel F. 150,000 

Mott Valentine Dr. .... 200,000 
A famous surgeon — of an eld respectable qtiaker fami- 
V of JEnglish descent — the progenitor locating about two 
centuries since at Mespath Kills, Newtown, afterwards at 
Hempstead. Valentine is the architectof his own for- 
tunes, and has literally cut his way up to a very hand- 
some estate. Viva la scalpel ! The other Motts here are 
of the same stem. 

MottWm. F. 150,000 

Moiilton Charles .... 200,000 

Cliarles was an active shrewd little broker some 15 
yefrs since in Wall street, and by some fortunate pur- 
chase of real estate became wealthy. He married for 
love a pretty little poor girl, the mocli accomplished only 
daughter of a respectable German piano teacher by a 
French wife. Mademoiselle M-'tz— now Mad. Moulton 
— was in early life deemed almost a musical prodigy by 
her voice and performances on the piano, and brought 
money to her parents by singing at public coijcerts. 
Moulton is of a high New England family, and has resi- 
ded some years since in Paris, where Madame Moulton 
has made great e.xeriions io be received into "haute so- 
ciete," and finally suct;eeded in being permitied to play 
the part of a "Pompadour Sheperdess" in one of the 
tableaux recently given at a bail of the Duke of Orleans. 
We do not think it possible that any American lady with 
dmcrican blood in her veins, would ever demean lierstlf 
and expose herself to the sneers and sarcasms of ttie 
"Faiixbourg St. Germaine," fot ihe saiie of being occa- 
sioniilly favored with a haughty nod of recognition from 
any of tbe ancient noblesse or new made peers of the 
French kingdom. JVoiis verrons. 

Munn Stephen B. 200,000 

One of the old -st dry goods merchants of New York — 
longalamous house in Pearl streei. We believe Mm 
a worthy man, ibUi. c,ose-fisn.d and grasping. 

MunsonM. 100,000 

Murray John R. .... 150000 

The Murrays were about half a century since among 

the most wealthy and inllusnual, and hail from njble 



Scotch extraction, though the most eminent here have 
been of the Society of Friends. One of these latter, on 
tlie high seat, set up his carriage, which, being deemed a 
little too luxurious, he palliated the censure by calling it 
a 'lleathern vehicle" for convenience! Col. Jas. B.M. 
in later times, was a conspicuous merchant, and married 
a daughter of Dr. Bronson. fVideBronson.J 

Murray Miss 150,000 

Murray Robt. I. 100,000 



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Neil son (Estate of) Wm. . - - 200,000 

An ancient merchant of very great repute and wealth, 
and long defeased, married "Lady Kitty Duer," widow of 
the former John Duer, and daughter of Lord Starling, of 
the <;ontinental army. By " Lady Kitty" or Catharine, 
old Mr. Neilson left a numerous family, one of whom, 
William, a respectable merchant and much esteemed 
gentleman, married a daughter of John B, Coles, de- 
ceased, and thus added to his fortune. 

NevinsR.H. 200,000 

NevinsP.L 200,000 

Of an au'icnt and highly respectable Dutch family of 
our olden time, and acquired his fortune in the flour line. 

NewbolH George .... 100,000 
A merchant. The Nfwbolds are of a very ancient 
and highly distinguished family of New Jersey. 

Niblo Wm. 100,00; 

Tlie matchless and incomparable Niblo, proprietor ot 
of the Niblo Gardens, director of operas, vaudevilles, &c. 
&c. ad infinitum. An English boy, and began friendless, 
as a waiter, then became lord and master of a famous 
game hotel corner of Cedar street — finally expanded his 
wings to a higher flight, and branching into every species 
of elegant refinement that could pamper tbe public taste 
and palate to boot, has become decidedly the most promi- 
nent man that ever flourished in this good city, in the 
way of getting up agreeable and entertaining amusements 
of every variety, anu splendid festivals, banqueiings, fee. 
&c. In his line he is decidedly one of the "Heads of the 
People." 

Nnrris Thomas P - - 200,000 

Of a very old and respectable Dutch family. 



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Oakey Daniel 100,000 

Ogden J. D. 100,000 

Jno. Ogden. farmer, 1644, appears as one of the four 
patentees of Heiniistead, L. I., and came from England. 
This appears tn be ilie root of the highly respectable Og- 
densof New York tjndNevv Jersey. 

Oliphant D. W. 100,000 

Olmstead Francis 200,000 

A worthy fellow and one of the few instances of a 
prosperous merchant retiring at the right time. He is of 
the land of "steady habits'" and cousin of the very dis- 
tinguished Prof. O., of Yale. 

Oothout John 200,000 



Packard Isaac - ... 250,000 

Sundry " haciendas" and negro plantations in Cuba 
point darkly to the rather dubious track in which this 
adventurous New Englander to the tropics soon became 
by the characteristic cupidity of his countrymen, warmed 
into a West Indian temperament and a ready prosolyte 
to the ways of getting money in the Spanish colonies. 

Packer Wm. S., Brooklyn - - - 250,000 

Paine John 100,000 

A youth well eiteemed, and only child of a rich father 



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Vvho got his money by liird knocks. But no family of 
Vermont nobility can hold up their heads higher than 
this. 

Parmelee Dr. - - - - - 200,000 
The accomplished dentist and ademi-millionaire by his 
success in this art backed by a keen relish for, and "cute" 
Yankee tact in turning a penny. He is the richest of all 
this numerous profession and lives in princely style. The 
best patrons of dentists in this couniry ure our mercurial 
teeth-destroying doctors. 

Payne Thatcher T. - - - - 100,000 
Served a severe apprenticeship to struggling uphill la- 
bor, as a school teacher, and beCtinie of great eminence 
as a linguist and correct scholar — being of a finjily part 
Jew, from the east end of Long Isianil, not fir from 
Montauk. Is brother of the justly celebrate.l Jno. H.)W- 
ard Payne. Thatcher, however, in fortune has taken 
the wind out of the sails of the wandering poet, who has 
as much to do as ever to get Ins crust — for Tlintcher now 
has his liveries and his valet-s, and drives his carriage, 
and lives in snuff "'per force" of a most capital specula- 
tion he made in marrying tlie rich young blooming widow 
of Mr Baily, a rich merchant, dec'd, that left a, plumb 
nearly to her, and we hope Thatcher, who is a lucky 
rogue, don't forget his poor relations, if he has any 

Fearsall Thomas .... 250,000 

Merchant, distant relative of Thomas, deceased. 

PellD. C. 100,000 

PenfieldJohn 100,000 

Post Allison - 300,000 

The progenitor of the Posts was an humble mechanic, 
among the early English settlers of Sutl'ulk co., L 1, and 
thence the family soon alter located at Hempstead, 
Queens co. Joel and Jotham Post (both deceased), bro- 
thers of Allison, were, together with tlie late distinguish- 
ed Dr. Wright Post, (another brother) sons of a highly re- 
spectable butcher. \Vright's early lessons in tlie shambles 
gave hfm, probably, his strong taste for and afterwards 
eminence in, anatomy. Joel and Jotham, about 30 years 
since, carried on a great stroke in the drug line ; then 
smashed ; but a few years after built a magnificent store 
and warehouse, &c ; launched larger tlian ever into tlie 
vending of apothecaiy stutis, and, together with VVal- 
dron B., (son of one of the parties) accumulated a very 
large estate, on which theh families are now luxuriating 
in the fauxbourgs of our new made quality in the >i>;iiiity 
of Upper Broadway. 

Post Waldron B. - - - - 150,000 
To his fortune as above acquired Waldron added a con- 
sideiable amount by marriage with a Miss De Wolfe, 
of Rhode Island. The De Wolfs are several of tlieni 
Cuba planters, and one made a vast estate by trafficking 
in the slave trade. 

Prall David M. - - - - - 100,000 
• An ancient and respectable New York family in the 
the mercantile line. 

Prime Edward 150,000 

Son of the "doctor," as his rich deceased father, Na- 
thaniel, the Wall St. broker so famous, was called. What 
the soubriquet of doctor had reference to,except to certain 
veterinary remmiscences connected with Nathaniel's early 
reputed occupations, we know not. Bovvever, he seems to 
have become an adept in something more than horse-flesh, 
and learned how to crack a good bargain in the way of 
money changes and brokerages, in which line, at New 
York, he rose by persevering industry to be the head and 
founder of the celebrated bankijig house of Prime, Ward 
& King, &c. 

Palmer John 1. 100,000 

One of New England's numerous enterprising sons who 
have found New York the most successiul field tor their 
monetary operations. 

Parish Daniel 100,000 

Parish Henry (His brother) - - 250,000 

This family spiang from a*" honorable root, a surgeon of 

the Britisn Navy, who about two centuries ago located in 



this province. A romnntic incident cfinn«ets with Dr. Pa 
rish:— In one ofthe earliest commercial adventures from 
a neiubboring village lo ihe south, and in which a vf ner- 
,able lady, the proprietor of the vessel and her cargo of ci- 
der and aiiplfs, went pastengpr, accompanied by a beauti- 
ful daughter. Dr. Parish also was invited to act as naviga- 
tor. At Ocracoke Inlet they saw the head of a celebrated 
pirate nailed to the bowsprit of a vessel of war; smd, on 
their return. were overiak>'n hy a storm which, but for the 
doctor's seamanship, would have consigned them all to 
the deep. For this he received the hnnd of the fair young 
damsel on board, and thus became a denizen of this pro- 
vince But from that day to this, the generations have 
never been ble-si-d with worldly prosperity until in the 
persons of Henry and his brothers. 

Paulding William 500,000 

Former mayor, &c , of the democratic school, and al- 
leged descendant of Pauldine, one of the captors of ihe 
British spy Major Andre. That sterling continental sol- 
dier little imagined that one of his descendants would be- 
come enriched by interinarnasre with one of the rankest 
Tory frmiliesof the i evolution — to wit, a Rhinel under. — 
[See below.] 

Pearsall Mrs.Thos. - - . . 200,000 
Her husband, of an old Lons Island family of Hemp- 
stead, inherited a large estate from his father, a quaker 
merchant, and this was doubled by his alliance with this 
la )y, daughter of the rich Scoth merchant, Thomas Bu- 
chanan. 

Per-k Eli*ha 200.000 

The Pecks are from a highly respectable and very an- 
cient English family, who tiral came to Boston, then loca- 
ted at Saybrook, Conn. 

Perit Peletiah .... - 250,000 

PerryJ. A. (Broker) .... 150,000 

Peters .John R. 300,000 

Of an an'-ient and respectable N. Y. family. Alder- 
man Jno. R., iieeiM'-d one of the " cutest" politicians of 
his time in the democratic ranks. 

Phelps Anson G. - - • - 100,000 

Phelps Thaddeus 100,000 

The Phelpses come from Connecticut and are highly 
respectable. 
Phiiipson Francis .... 200,000 

PhcEnix J. P. 150,000 

Formerly a groc-'r. the standiig whig candidate fot 
M'yor ; h ^ is a son in-law of Stephen Wluinry. 

P.iarsailThos.W. .... 100,000 

Phjfe Dur.can 300,000 

Pierson Henry L. - - - - 100,000 

lion merchant, and snn nf Jeremiah, who with Isaac P , 
estii Wished m tne very infancy of our manufactures, anail, 
and afterwards ill addditiou a co(fon factory, on the Rama- 
po river, and there acquired great wealth. Isaac, until of 
late years, resided in tlie city, and held places of public 
trust, which he filled with great credit as a prominent 
leader in the " old guard" of the democracy of the Jeffer- 
son school. The progenitor of the Piersous was a cler- 
g5'man and pastor of the English Colony that founded 
Southampton, Suffolk Co. two ceuturies ago. 

PimieJohn 150,000 

Porter D.C. 100,000 

R 

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Rankin (estate of Henry) - - - 250,000 
The Ran Kins are among the old KLickerbockers. 

Raiikiu John 200,000 

RathboneJohn 600,000 

Rathbone .John Jr. 200,000 

TheRathbones aie Yankees fiomConLCtic at, we be- 
lieve. 

Ray Robert 300,000 

Son of Cornelius R., an ancient merchant aiid old 



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putch New York family. 'Robert added some to his 
vvealth by marrutm a daughter of N. Prime, the brolcar, 
Jno. A. K'ln^ pe7- contra, got a very larae sli<e of the 
Ray property by marrying a daughter of Cors. Ray. 

Reed Luman 500,000 

Began as a modest grocer and accumulated great 
wealth. Before his decease was one of ihe most liberal 
patrons of our native artists, (Mount and others) and es- 
tablished a superb picture gallery, &c., that might com- 
pare wrjth that of an English nobleman's. 

Remsen Henry 500,000 

The Remsens are one of our very oldest Dutch 
Knickerbocker famalies. 

Remsen] Three children - - - 300,000 

Remscni^ of ... 300,000 

RemsenJ H. Rerasen ... - 300,000 

Remsen Henry 150,000 

Remsen Henry B. 100,000 

Remsen William .... 100,000 

Rapilye G. (Estate of) - - - - 500,000 
Th •I first bi.rn Dutch child on Lon? Islsn'', ovir two 
hundred years ago, was a R,»pilye. at 'He iinri-nt pairi- 
inrnial ►stiTe somewhere Hearth" Wailabout, (now tue 
United States Navy Yar J.) See Chabert. 

Rhinelander Bernard . - - - 200,000 
Tfle R1in^ld^rJ, for fifty years pas', among the ii';hest 
of tne rich in this city, were hut humble tai ori arid bhne- 
Jnakerj ii the revoluton. The lories who stall in 'h : 
city feaiherei their ne-^u under the protec ion <'f the 
Uritiih fl g. Many (f th ^m eegpged m takiug i-hnre^ ia 
piivut( ering on tJie rebel merchant ? h ps — an^t tlnn wi re 
]mge fortunes m;.de by thi native born ene lie^ of our in- 
depend-ncf out of thehwd earniig^i of sufl'ering families 
of pairiiitic wDigs thus reduced toruiu. 

Rhinelander Wm. C. - . - - 200,000 

RiggsElisha 500,000 

Riker Richard ..... 250000 
This celebrated criminal Judge, and so long Recorder, 
is from one of our most ancient Dutch families— the pro- 
genitor locating hirhself ne^r Hell Gate on Riker's Island, 
so well known as the stopping place to small craft before 
they enter this modern Styx at unfavorable tides. If Ihe 
ancestor fl.\ed himself at the entrance of the Infernal Re 
gions, it may be said of the offspring above, that he was 
legitimately the three-headed Cerberus who has guarded 
the gates and keys to those dungeons and penitentiaries 
which open to criminals on earth a temporary purgatory. 
Richard is a veritable knight of the old school; a preux 
chevalier — has sin a his m;ui in duello in the heats s row- 
ing out of the great democratic Jeflerson truuiiph of 1800, 
and in recherche politesse and refined courtesy of manner 
he is decidedly the most fascinating man that ever figur- 
ed so high and so long in all the bitterest bmilsof party 
excitement for the last 40 years. He possesses that true 
art of the gentleman which in truth is nature, the "ars 
celare artem," and in whom the perpetual smile of sere- 
nity, and gentle suavity of manner never appear assui'ned 
ordesigned, butsincere and heanfeit. This, with a bril- 
liant, strong intellect, ha^ given him his peculiar power 
,and ascendancy as the first political leader of his day. — 
Though subtle in diplomacy, no false pity or disparaging 
sinister thought could ever dilute or reverse Ills irrevoca- 
ble and luminous decisions on tlie bench. 

RobbinsJohn 500,000 

RobbinsN 100,000 

Roberts Daniel 100,000 

His father a physician who acquu-ed a fortunfe in the 
"""* ^-"— Daniel is a lawyer. 



Romaine Samuel B. - • • - IpO^d 
His fathei, Benjamm, acquired his fortune by speculs^- 
tion in water-lots, then the old "Collect," in Centre and 
Canal streets. He was true blue Tammany bucktail, and 
the man who got up the great funeral to the charnel- 
house at the Wailabout, of the 11,500 dead of the Jersey 
prison-ship. 

Rodgers John R. B. (Estate of) . 200,000 

A resp ctable physician deceased, whose fortune in life 
was aided by a wealthy father, long a respectable Pres- 
liyteri m clergyman. Dr. R. doubled h's fortune by hold- 
ing the Hedih Office when it yielded 825,000 a year, and 
ag:iin by marrying the rich widow Smith. So the Doc- 
tot's children, if iQey had not all his intellect, were born 
with the advantage of being the inheritors of his fortune, 
which does much for a man's reputation ia this country 
Rogers Dr J. Smyth . • . 100,000- 

The wealthiest and most "distinguee" Of all the Rogers 
family of this city, was Moses, a smart lUtle tailor of 
Stamford, Conn., tliat itinerated all along the villages of 
the Sound during the revolution, and followed in the train 
of the Suttlers of the British troops wherever they were 
quartered. Moses, however, with his brothers Henry 
and Nehemiah, had, like their brother Snip of the Rhine- 
lander family, too vaulting an ambition and too great a 
thirst for money in those adventurous and troublous times 
t<> be c infined to the goose and thimble, and therefore did 
they embark their awl in the privateering business.— 
Tlience Nehemiah's promotion to a red-coat in the British 
line, and hence the wealth of many tories is much of Jt 
legitimately belonging to ruined whig famUies. Yet how 
thetide of foriunij capriciously sets— two of the grand- 
daugiit- rs of Moses have successively married to Willi -"ra, 
the seconii son of the lich patroon of Albany, Stepheji 
Van Ken.:ellaer, deceased, and the inheritance of their 
children is a princely estate. 

Rogers John 150,000 

Rogers Mrs. John .... 200,000 
Was a Smith, widow af a rich merchant—she is now 
the widow of Dr. Rodgers, dec'd. 

Roosevelt C. V. S. - - 250/)00 

Roneevelt Jas. I.- - ^ . - 150,000 
No family s-hine rriore honorably in the ancient Du'ch 
snnilsof this province than the Roost veils — the vene- 
rated Burgomasters of iheif day. 

Reggies Sam'l B. 100,000 

A lawyer, of a respectable family of this state Samuel 
has dipped largely in real estate speculations, to his great 
regret no doubt, and has figured as an eminent financier 
amotfg whig politicians — making a vet y narrow escape 
from toe fraternal embraces of the " pipe layers." 

Russell Chas. H. - - - - 150,000 
A dashing New England merchant, one of the "Haute 
classe"of the would be rulers of fashion and polite cir- 
cles. 

Russell Wra. H. 100,060 



S 



$ 



West Indies. 



Robins John 
Rogers George P. 
Bomaine Beuj'n - 



500,000 
250,000 
100,000 



Saltus Francis - . - . . 300,000 
He and "Old Nick," or the General, as they call hts 
brolher, who has been a fixture at the City Hotel coteries 
of old bichelors for half a century gone, are sons of a 
respectable sea-captain, dec'd, of old Dutch Knicker. 
bocker extraction. Nicholas and Francis are fron mer- 
chants. "Gin'ral'' Nicholas lias survived several gener- 
ations of the old boys of the olden time, and is still as 
bright as a morning lark, and a most mveterate and im- 
passioned admirer of "vimmen and vine." Who hasnot 
heard him recount his exploits in Russia, his intimacy 
with the Emperor Nicholas, his namesake, and above 
all, listened to his enchanting warblingof " Sweet Lulla- 
by !" 

Salles (Estate, of) L. - - - 1,000,000 

A native of France, and upright merchant, who by cau- 
tious loans during- great pressures, amassed rapidly ovei^- 
grown opulence, stinting himself in his perepatetic peri- 
grinations on "Change" to pockets of bread and cheesei, 



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pni hoarding the dcubloona lor those wlio, by intermar- 
riage with his children, will soon find ways and means to 
scatter much of it into useful circulation. The orphan 
children of Mr. Vail, late American Consul at Nantes or 
L'Oiient, were consigned by the late Secretary of the 
Treasury, Mr. Crawford, to the protection of Mr. Van Bu- 
ren, and through the lutter's very prodigal patronage, 
they were thrown into positions to command eligible in- 
termarriages, and thus their fortunate connection With the 
familyof Mr. Salles. 

Saltus Nicholas (Vide preceding) - 250^000 

Sambler's Estate Casper • - - 250,000 

Sampson Joseph ----- 500,000 
A young man an4 a widower ; the purchaser of S. 
Ward's house for the sum of $60,000. Has made his mo- 
ney in the auction business. 

Sanderson E. F. ... - 100,000 

Sands Joseph . - - . - 100,000 
Highly respectable proprietor, who early settled on 
Long Island, and hence Sands' Point oil the entrance of 
the Sound. 

Sands Thomas 100,000 

Scheifflin Effingham .... 100,000 

Schiefflln H'y C. - - - - 100,000 
There is but tliia one family of the name, being descen- 
ded from a German officer of the British army in the re- 
volution, who while quartered here became enamoured 
^"ith and married to a rich and beautiful heiress of an 
American family. 



Schiefflln R. H. 
Schermerhorn Abrah&m - 
Schermerhorn John - 
Schermerhorn Peter 



150,000 

. 500,000 
500,000 
400,000 



The Schermerhorns are Dutch or German, and have 
risen to note within about a century past, as liiechanic?, 
small tradesmen, merchants, &c., keeping aloof from all 
entanglements of party strife or otherwise, and closely 
Ihusbanding the abundant fruits of their laborious toil, 
which they have doubled by frequent alliances with other 
opulent families, the Jones, &c., of their own grade. 

Schuchardt Frederick .... 200,000 
Sharp Peter ----- 100,000 
Sharpe & Sutphen made tlieir money honestly by vend- 
ing whips and cowhides of every denomination, when 
horse and ox flesh were in greater repute than they have 
been since they have been diiven otT the course by the 
fire horses of steam. Peter Sharpe was once a great 
man in the old Democratic ranks, and became Speaker of 
the Assembly. 

Sheldon Fredk. 150,000 

Shotwell Joseph S. : - . . 200,000 

Simers William L. . - - -, 200,000 
About 30 years ago the inost famous nostirum vender 
and quack advertiser that Cherry street could boast of. 
lie was the "Salua populi" Dr. Home & Evans of that 
day, as many a poor Jack Tar along the sliip yards and 
quay could testify and say. 

Smith Edmund (deceased) - . - 250,000 
An ancient merchant of the "Bull Smith" branch Of 
the legions of Smith. Edmund's ancestor was Patentee 
ofSmithtown, Suffolk county, and an illustrious name in 
oiu early annals. 

Smith John T. 100,000 

Smith Peter 150,000 

Smith Renel 100,000 

Smith Cornelius . . - . - 100,000 

SmithMicahJ. 100,000 

SpoffordPaul- ..... 200,000 

Springler's Estate Mr. . - - 200,000 

Stacey James G. .... 100,000 



StaggJohnP. . . . . » 100,OOB 

Of an old Knickerbocker race. 
StaggBenj. 100,000 

Stephens Benjamin - ^ - . 400,000 

A wealthy New York mercliqnt in ihe grocer lin , and 
fathftr of the piesent ren'vwned traveller, who was 
broughiupin the midst of muscovados andmolassfs, but 
hisroamirg spiiit could not loi g endure suctinprson, 
and Palestme and P«lenque are carved on hia sliield. 

Stevens Horatio G. - - - - 150,000 
Brother of " Alderman Sam," William, John, &c.— 
Their father Maj. Gen. Ebeneier Stevens, was a merito- 
rious and gallant officer of the old continental line of the 
army of the revolution, and as Major commahded the ar- 
tillery v/ith deadly effect in several bloody encounters. — 
How honorable to Major Stevens to rise to that point from 
out of the ranks where it is said he enlisted as a private 
aoldierj leaving his tools as a journeyman carpenter to 
take up the sword and battle a.\e for liberty. His sons 
have many of ihem inherited much of his inborn energy 
and power of mind. The Stevenses so celebrated in en- 
gineering, and sons of Col. Stevens, of Hoboken, are a 
totally different family. 

Stevens Alex. H. - - - . 150,000 
A surgpon of some repute, and son of General Eb^ntt- 
zerS. '1 he Doctor's three successive marriages to rich 
heiresses has, we iniasine, put more money in hii purse 
than amptitaiiug tumors ot tying up arteries. 

Stevens John H. 100,000 

Stevens Robt. L. .... 350,000 

Stevens Jna. C. 300,000 

Robert L. and John C. are sons of Col. Stevens, de- 
ceased, of Hoboken. The eminent ability of Robert, as 
one who alone has inhented the mantle of his fiieiid Ful- 
ton, is too Well inown to need remark. 

Steward John 300,000 

But 30 years a resident here, and by the force of his 
own straight-forward, clear headed sagacity in the dry 
goods line, &c., has acquired near half a million. 

Stewart A. T. 200,000 

Steward John Jr 100,000 

Stewart Robert 200,000 

One of two Scotch brothers, who, by marriage inherit 

the great old Diiich estate of the Lispenards, near Canal 

street. 

Stuart R.L. 200,000 

Noble as the " royal house of Stuart,"— is none we 

helieve but this sweet gentleman whose steam candy 

trade has blown him and his up into bloated affluence, 

adopts the true version — being a true born Scot that can 

now support his title. 

Stewart Lispenard - . . . 100,000 

Storm Stephen - ... - 100,000 

Storm Garret 200,000 

Of an old Knickerbocker race. 

Stout AguiUa G. 200,000 

Strong George W. - - . - 150,000 

Of a Long Island family, of great respectability. The 
brother Benjamin, a very demure and over pious man in 
religious professions, but a bitter old Federalist was he m 
the politics of the olden time. 

Strong Mrs. James - - . - 250,0(^0 
She was a Remsen, we think, and from hence her 
great estate. 

Sturges Jonathan 150,000 

Stuyvesant Peter G. - - - - 2,500,000 
His ancestor, Governor-General and Admiral Von Pe- 
ter Stuyvesant, that redoubtable little fiery gentleman, 
whose portraiture is so graphically touched by Diedrich 
Knickerbocker, and who, as the last of the Dutch dynas- 
ty, went out uproariously, a true martinet, subjecting all 
Ws vassals to courts martial, military flogging, &c., if th';y 
but dared to look at his surline^e, is eo familiarly known 



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ih the history of New York, that this line suffices. Gov. 
Nicoll,from England, who brought the little gentleman to 
his bearings, omitted one thing, viz; to make him disgorge 
some of his cruel exactions, but Pt-ter took the oath to 
the Gorgon banner of St. George, and doffed the beaver- 
tail and windmill escutcheon of Dulch authority, and 
thus retaining his rich cabbage gardens at Corlier's Hook 
and Bowery, hid himself away as snug aa a mouse in a 
cheese. The generations from him are all baptised in the 
lace shirt in which he was cliristened. They inherit and 
keep too, the silver spoon. 

Suckley George - ... - 300,000 
SuffernThos. .... - 250,000 
A respectable Irish gent — nephew of the venerable 
Judge S., of Rockland Co., N. Y., deceased. The pres- 
ent Judge Edward Suffern, 1st Judge of Rockland Co., is 
Bon of the deceased Judge. Thomas owes his gold to o- 
bacco — that precious weed. 

Suydam Fer'd S. - - - - - 200,000 
A worthy and highly respectable old New York fami- 
ly, of Dutch extract, we believe, and have plodded along, 
minding iheir own business and heaping up wealth, and 
meddling with no one. 

Suydam James 150,000 

Suydam (Estate of) John - - - 700,000 

Suydam Lambert ... - 200,000 

Suydam Rich'd 100,000 

Swan Benj'n L. - - - - - 300,000 
The firm of Otis & Swan were peculiarly lucky in their 
commercial arrangements during the last war. 

Swords James 100,000 

Eminent booksellers many years past. The best lite- 
rary speculation one of them made was his intermarriage 
witn aLjrillard. 

T 

S 
Talbot C.N. ... i - - 100,000 
The most distinguished Talbots were of the same fa- 
mily as Com. Talbot, an honored naval hero of our coun- 
try. 

Tallmadge James .... 100,000 
The "General," and once Lieut. Gov., and eminent as 
a jurist, senator, patron of American industry, &c. &c. 
"Good wine needs no bush. 

TargeeJohn 100,000 

A young Frpnch adventurer, silversmith by trade, emi- 
grated, s^me tifty years ago, to this country, and by go' d 
conduct and industry, and greai shrewdness as a politi- 
cian in the democratic ranKs, to wnicli he, as it turned 
out, wisely attached hiinsfclf, rendered himself euiiiienuy 
conspic loui in that party, and for Lis uniiring dtvoiitm t j 
Iheir interest-, was lichiy rewarded with sundry piotita- 
ble posts of honor. So cUstingui^heJhidhe become trom 
the Jeflers' nian triumph of j 800 upward, that Vice Presi- 
dent Tompkins made him his conhoeitial friend, and he 
waa every where looked upon for a tim-; as the most in- 
fluential leader, if noi caiei of ihti pari> in itiis quarter of 
me state. Hence during ilie struggles to supplant Clin- 
ton, the poet Croaker wrote thus— 

"I'm sick of General Jackson'* toast, 
Canals aje nought lo me ; 

Nordo Ica'e who rues the roast, 
Clinton or Jolui Targee." 

Taylor Edward N. - .... 200,000 

Taylor Jacob B. 100,000 

Taylor Moses 300,000 

A very worthy man and grocer. His connection in bu 
siness with the Astors has brought gold to his coffers. 

Thompson Ab'm G. - - - - 350,000 

Thompson Samuel .... 300,000 

Thompson David 100,000 

Thompson Jonathan .... 250,000 
An apostle of the "«ld guard" of democracy, and 



comes froift that vigorous nursery of sucli materiaf, "01^ 
Suffolk." He was a long time our respected Collector. 
Thorne Herman .... 1.000,000 
_ This is the "Colonel," the very pink and glass of fasl^ 
'on m the Parisian circles. His old quaker ancestors of 
Flushing and Cow Neck would open their eyes to enter 
his gorgeous private chapel at his imperial mantion in the 
French capital. What changes in the wheel of fortune, 
from an humble purser in the navy 1 But Herman can fall 
back to eariiest English history for the high rank of his 
ancestry, whatever the worid may think of his fashiona- 
ble follies. He beeins, we hear, to sicken of the heart 
lessness of the life he is leaduig. 

Tileston Thos. 100 000* 

Tillou F. R. ^ . . . . 150^000 
A selfraade man in the law; his father being a long 
time in the humble capacity of one of the Mayor's police 
marshals. This son married a sister of that remarkable 
genius and first of American poets, Dr. Joseph Rodman 
Drake—" Croaker senior." 

Tisdale Samuel T. 100,000 

'lltus Wm. M. .= . . . . 100,000 

Of an old quaker family of Long Island. 
Todd Wm. W. 100,000 

Of a New York family we believe ; long distinguished 
democratic merchants. 

Tonne I lee John 200,000 

French— kept a large glove store in Pearl street. 
Towning 100,000 

Town send Thomas J. ... 150,000 

Of the firm ofT. J. and E. Townsend, dry good mer- 
chants, and sfilf-made men. They are from Queen's Co., 
L. I., originally. 

Town send John R. - - - - 200,000 
A highly respected member of the bar, and only son of 
Aid. Thorns S. T., deceased, 

Townsend Elihu 250,000 

Broker; of a New Haven family. He and his brother- 
jn-law,Nevins, have amassed a large property. 
Treadwell Adam .... 200,000 
The Treadvvells are an English family of great respec- 
tability who settled first at Ipswich, Mass., about two 
centuries ago. 

Trimble Daniel ..... 100,000 

Trimble George T. .... 100,000 

Tucker F. C. - - ■» - - - 200,000 

Tucker Gideon 400,000 

Self-made man. A mechanic and arcliitect. 

Tucker Fanning C. - - - - 300,000 

This IS truly a " tall" good fellow in every sense, being 
near seven feet in his shoes, as is plain to all men's 
views, sings an admirable song, and patronizes music and 
the opera; drives a fine team, and in short, is a first rate 
gentleman, living as a gentleman should, and showing 
that one-can be such without neglecting even the severer 
enjagements of business and the counting room. For, 
where is the better and richer merchant than he among 
the whole catalogue of shippers 1 Prot. John B. Beck 
married a daughter of Mr. Tucker. 



V 

Van Allen James I. - ' - - 400,000 
A shrewd old Knickerbocker, formerly from Kmder- 
hook; made his large property in the dry goods trade 
in times when great profits and small risks were the order 
of the day. 
Van Buren John - .... 100,000 

Van Arsdale Peter, Dr. - - - 100,000 
A hiirhly respected physician, who has by dint of se- 
vere and continued hard labor in his profession, ac- 
quiredj in the upper part of our city, where the pay is 



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■emaTI, 'but sure, a comfortable fortune. He is of the old 
Dutch families. 

Van Ransellaer (Estate of) Stephen - 1,000,000 
The late Patioon Van Rensellaer, of Albany, the lord 
of the manor Rensellaerwyck, the most ancient and dis- 
tinguished name of the old Dutch gentry who came hither 
shortly after the discovery of the Hudson river 1609. The 
first Patrooii or Lord Van Ransellaer, owned near thirty 
miles square, both sides the river, at, and above, and 
below Albany ; the estate then comprehending that city, 
then a fortress, now a free town and capital of the State 
■while the manor and all its feudal privileges, and the 
Helderberg mountains aad its hardy tenants still do 
homage to the " noble house of Van Ransellaer. No 
family in America has so long kept together an estate to 
be compared with this in value, extent and princely here- 
ditaments. Next to John Jacob Aster's it is the wealthi- 
est in the country. Besides the " lordship' ' the late Pa- 
troon owned hundreds of lots in New York city ; among 
others the block where Niblo has his garden. This fami- 
ly, generation after generation, have almost always lean- 
ed to the cause of popular rights, and in the revolution 
staked all. Fortune has ever smiled on them, and they 
in turn fully content with their most abundant allotment 
in the prizes of this world, have had no grasping desires 
for power and office ; and like the present joung Patroon, 
" young Steve," as his tenantry call him, let the world 
wag on in its own way, so they are let to hold fast 
to their own, however much the horn-blowers on the 
Helderberg may beleaguer the young Patroon and be- 
grudge him the ownership of these posssessions, and 
threaten him with a breakfast of cold slugs, if he insist 
on the rent-roll. 

Vandervoort Peter - - - - 150,000 

No more respedfed merchant or citizen of exemplary 
purity of life thari' this head of the ancient and respecta- 
ble house of Vandervoort & Flandin, whose once gay, 
fancy sture, on the corner of Trinity church yard, is now 
replaced by the not less fashionable Restaurant which 
rejoiceth in the not unappropriate name, (for such a lo- 
cality) "The KremHn." Mr. Vandervoort owns the 
A'remttn house, and the family are one of the most an- 
cient of the Dutch of this city. 

Vanderbilt Cornelius .... 250,000 
Of an old Dutch root. Cornelius has evinced more 
energy and "go aheadativeness" in building and diiving 
steamboats, and other projects, than ever one single 
Dutchman possessed. It takes our American hot suns 
to clear off the vapors and fogs of the " Zuyder Zee," 
and vv'ake up the phlegm of a descendant of old Holland. 

Van Nest Abraham ... - 300,000 
An old Dutclunan and self-made man ; formerly a sad- 
dler, then engagfd in the saddlery hardvirare business, in 
whicti, and by the rise of real estate, he has made his 
money. 

Van Nottrand John .... 100,000 
Respectable old Dutch family, from Jamaica, Long 
Island. 

VanSchaickM, 200 000 

Of a respectable Dutch family of Albany, and mar- 
ried the daughter of the rich Jno. Hone, and moved 
here. Has been a Senator. 

Varian Isaac L. 200,000 

Of the very oldest of the Dutch "Mynheers" who, 
some two centuries since, under, probably. Gov. Peter 
Minuit or Gov. Wm. Kiefl, located with the Dyckraaus, 
&c , as honest mechanics or farmers at Hailem, upon the 
outskirts of the island of Manhattan, Manahattas or Man- 
hatoes, as this great city was variously called. There 
this colony, charmed with the muddy marshes of Spi- 
tendevil creek, so much like old Holland, remained and 
burroughed, and there they are to-day, till party strife 
has dragged some of them out into places of high promi- 
nence, like our late Mayor, Isaac; their harmless, indus- 
trious life being better political capital to any party than 
collegiate learning, as Isaac's success has proved, and 
his good Judgment and plain democratic simplicity of 
manners weighing down all the disparagements of de- 
fective orthography and bad grammar. 



Varnura Jos. B. 150,000 

One of the ancient "noblesse" of Vermont. 
Verplank GulianC .... 200,000 
Son ofthe rich Judge V., of Fishlill, receased. "Gu 
leni Verph.nck," tae ancestor, is one of the numes found 
on Ihft earliest Dutch recori^s of New Amsterdam and ' 
though liimself of pUiin 'ligin, lose to con>ideri)tion in 
municipal Irims afc- r ihe Engisli Conquest, 16t6. Gulian 
C. v., late Senator, holds the most poiifhed and classical 
pen in Ameriean ii'eraiure, but wants the patlios snd feel- 
ing of Irviyg, and the strength ard energy of many other 
of our native writera. Elejant diction and philological 
and anliquarim studies were, liowever, the tiue field of 
hisgeniuti, and it w.is a fatal error when be aspired to po- 
litico! hcinors inrj senatori-i! digrii.ies. The bluer feuds of 
party strife, and the low intrigues arid associ uiotis of 
fcurvy poliiicidUs, was not ihe life for him. To be com- 
pelled to compromise his pride and fintr feelings, to favor 
those wh< in he Imagined might promote his political ad- 
vnncemeiit, led to treacherous combinations that forfeit- 
ed his clamis to the respect and confidetjce of both the 
great parties wiih wliom he alternately acted as his ca- 
price dictated, lo the reignirg and now prostrae idols 
of Biere party, he often lhU(< sacrificed the considi raiiona 
of privAte frif-ndthip and personal obligatii ns, and thus 
tarnish'd, in the declining years o( life, a name tliat 
should ne ar have had its lustre dimued. 



W 

s 

Wagataff (Estate of Uavid) - - - 200,000 
Had a fortunate father in the dry goods Jine. 

Walker Joseph 100,000 

English merchant. 

Walker R. G. - - - - . . 100,000 

Wallace William .... 200,000 

Ward John 150,000 

Brother of Samuel, deceased, and of Richard. Of an 
ancient and honored name in the annals of Rhode Island. 

Ward Sam'l Jr. 100,000 

Son of Samuel, deceased, (vide.) Married a daughter 
of the rich Wm. B. Astor, (vide;) and is of the bank- 
ing house his father Samuel belonged to. 

Whittemore Mrs. Samuel . - - 100,000 

Waring Henry 100,000 

Watt James ..... 200,000 

Weed Nathaniel 200,000 

Weed Harvey 200,000 

Wells James N. 100,000 

James N . Wells rose from the humble vocation of a 
carpenter to be a rich man and alderman. 

Wendell John D. 500,000 

Wetmore William E. - . - - 800,000 
A young man of Rhode Island of good birth, launched 
his bark with the true spirit of a New England boy on 
the wide waters of the ocean, and after buffeting the 
wave of every sea, from the Pacific and her summer galea 
to Asia's perfumed isles and the angry Atlantic, returns 
long before he has reached his prime, brbging home with 
him the huge forttme made by his own hands and 
by bold adventures, and reaching to near a million. 
Many is the lasso which wiley dowagers and old 
bel dames have thrown out to noose this Chinese 
Mandarui of the first water, but it won't do; he is not a 
Giraffe to be caught by such bait, for he sees the drift 
and measures the breadth of simpering twaddle driven to 
its last shuffle. He prefers to enjoy the luxury of his 
own palankin and punka solus "pour le present." 

Weyman Abner 200,000 

One of the richest "tailors" of our city. A worthy fa- 
mily. 

White (Estate of) Charlotte and Amelia 300-000 
Their father was of that high-toned circle of old English 



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g-«iitieiiien and merchants, who quondam dwelt in former 
titaes in that now much lampooned and mconsiderateey 
abused, Wall street, which, to believe certain infamous 
and obscene presses, is to day nothing better than a den 
of thieves and blacklegs, or robbers and murderers. TJie 
celebrated belles of this city in the revolution, when for 
'seven years the martial trump and the plumed helmet of 
J;he red-coais flourished here, were decidedly ihese two 
charming sisters, the Miss Whites, but in the gay dance 
and the bewildering scenes of those spirit-stirring times, 
these fair damsels were too surrounded with England's 
noblest chivalry to know how to make up their minds, 
and thus lived on in the g-lorious independence of celiba- 
cy to these latter days— Miss Charlotte still surviving. 
They are some of the oldest of the English gentry of 
New York. 



White Eli - 
White Wm. A. 
White Robert 
Whitehead Wm. 



200,000 
100,000 
100,000 
100,000 



Whiting James R. (N. England noblesse) 150,000 

Whitloek W. 150,000 

Whitney Stephen - - - - . 3,000,000 
OftheWhitneys of New England. As one obtained a 
pricelesss and goldless immortality, but no bread or pro- 
vant for his family, by tile invention of the cotton gin, 
which in a few short years drove tlie culture to hunr 
dreds of millions of pounds, so is Stephen in truth indebted 
to this same cotton and to this illustrious relative for the 
great fortune which he realized hand in hand "argent 
comptant," by the sudden rise of the article, in which the 
aforesaid Stephen, habitually cautious as he is, was luck- 
ily at the time a very heavy operator. 

Whittemore Timothy - - - - 100,000 
Another self-made man was his father, Samuel, by that 
curious and most ingenious of all ingeniousYapkee inven- 
tions, the wool card maker,which by its complicated move- 
ments almost imitates the human hand, and human in- 
telligence, self-propelling by steam. It is a rare instance 
of the inventions of genius giving return profits. 

Willinkl.A. 100,000 

Wiirams Richard S. ... 150,000 

By faithful, close application to the grocery business, 
in which he bears a most respectable name, has acquired 
a large property. He is of the family of one of the 
greatest landholders among the early purchasers and set- 
tlers who colonized the Enghsh villages on Long Island, 
viz : Robe) t -Williams, nephew it is believed, of Roger, 
the founder of Providence. 

Williams R.S. 150,000 

Willis John R. 150,000 

Hardware merchant, and of an ancient quaker family 
of Long Island. 

Wilmerding Wm. E. - - . - 150,000 
Ofthe auction house of Austin & Wilmerding, and 
formerly with Haggerty. He is, we believe, German in 
extraction. 

Wmthrop Henry R. - - - . 100,000 

In expectancy this descendant of the first Governor of 
IVIassachusetis, may count on inheriting this amount by 
his marriage with Miss Hicks, a grand-daughter of the 
late Thomas Buchanan. The Winthrops have their 
family portraits for eight generations, as far back as the 
fifteenth century, when they left their rich possessions in 
England to found the city of Boston. 

Winans Anthony V. - - - - 150,000 

Woodruff Thos. T. - - - 250,000 

An architect, and while an alderman had several fat 
contracts of the corporation. 
Wisner Gabriel 100,000 

Grocer, and a worthy bachelor. His grandfather 
was a member of the Continental Congress from this 
state, and his father was killed at the Indian massacre at 
Minisink. 

VFithers Reuben 100,000 



Wolfe Christopher 250 000 

Hardware merchant, and ofthe old German families. 

Wolfe J. D. 300,000 

A hardware merchant ; married one of the Lorillards 

by whom he has realized a very large property, with 

much more in expectation. 

Wood John 100,000 

Wood John (Baker) .... 100,000 

Wright (Estate of) Grove - - 150,000 

This respected merchant, deceased, was probably a 
branch of the numerous family of Wrights of this city, 
who are of New England origin, having, it is believed, 
first setUed soon after the puritan forefathers at Ply- 
mouth. 

Wright Jno. D. 100,000 

We imagine this the rich son of Grove Wright above. 

Wyckoff Henry 100,000 

Old Dutch family. 

Wyckoff Widow .... 200,000 



Yates HenrV 150,000 

A lottery dealer &c. His brother was Gov. Joseph C 
Yates, one of the most ancient and respectable Dutch 
families tliat brought out their own goods and chattels, 
ships, household furniture, servants, blue jam tiles and 
olycoke and cruller irons, all from Old Amsterdam in 
Holland to Schenectady and those parts, long before the 
Livingstons and others of the "lesser empire" were 
dreamed of. 

Yates Mr*. Joseph C. - - - - 200,000 
Her husband of the Schenectady Yates family, made 
liis wealth as a lottery dealer. 

Young Henry - - . ^ - 300,000. 
Of Long Island. 



WEALTH OF THE CITY. 

VALUATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE ITU 
1841. 



1st Ward, 

2d " 

3d " 

4th " 

5th " 

6th " 

7th " 

[8th " 

! 9th " 

10th " 

11th " 

12th " 

13th " 

14th " 

15th " 

16th » 

17th " 



Value of Real Estate, 

32,144,785 00 

15,015,850 00 

12,137,600 00 

8,733,450 00 

9,456,100 00 

7,979,750 00 

11,209,686 00 

11,384,100 00 

8,891,950 00 

6,163,900 00 

3,996,800 00 

8,187,329 00 

4,283,800 00 

6,899,300 00 

14,361,200 00 

15,796,348 00 

9,708,700 00 



Totals, $186,350,948 00 



Value Personal Estate. 
26,834,120 00 
1,932,583 00 
5,871,610 00 
1,880,037 00 
2,856,106 00 
1,824 900 00 
4,766,295 00 
2,093,50000 
l,194,1000o4 

736,40000 

95,6000o 

1,766,15 00 

326,157 00 
1,835,535 00 
8,669,521 00 

731,730 00 
1,429,624 00 

$64,843,972 00 



REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CORPORATION. 

Real Estate not in use for Public 

Purposes, 5,002,100 00 

Real Estate in use for Public Pur- 

poscB, 16,720,416 32 

$21,722,516 32" 



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